Abstracts tagged "quality of care and registry"

Abstract Number: 2985 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Practice-Level Variation in Quality of Care in the Acr’s Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry
Jinoos Yazdany¹, Nick Bansback², Megan E. B. Clowse³, Deborah Collier⁴, Karen Law⁵, Katherine Liao⁶, Kaleb Michaud⁷, Esi Morgan⁸, Jim Oates⁹, Catalina Orozco¹⁰, Andreas Reimold¹¹, Julia F Simard¹², Rachel Myslinski¹³, Tracy Johansson¹⁴ and Salahuddin Kazi¹⁵, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³Rheumatology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ⁴Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ⁶Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ⁸Pediatric rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁹Medicine/Rheumatology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ¹⁰Rheumatology Associates, Dallas, TX, ¹¹Hospital of Southern Norway, Kristiansand, Norway, ¹²Division of Epidemiology, Health Research and Policy Department, and Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ¹³Governance & Ethics Specialist, Amer College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁴Practice, Advocacy & Quality, American College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, GA, ¹⁵Rheumatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 has put into place an aggressive timeline for a Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)…
Abstract Number: 2487 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Practices Participating in a Quality Improvement Project Make Progress in Implementing Population Management
Erin Arnold¹, William Arnold¹, James Bower², Douglas Conaway³, J. Timothy Harrington², Drew Johnson⁴, James Mossell⁵, Joy Schechtman⁶ and Anne Winkler⁷, ¹Orthopedics and Rheumatology of the North Shore, Skokie, IL, ²Joiner Associates LLC, Madison, WI, ³Rheumatology/Medicine, Carolina Health Specialists, Myrtle Beach, SC, ⁴Crescendo Bioscience, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ⁵Arthritis and Osteo Center of South Georgia, Tifton, GA, ⁶Sun Valley Arthritis Center LTD, Peoria, AZ, ⁷Rheumatology, Winkler Medical Practice LLC, Springfield, MO
Background/Purpose: Population management (PM) offers a promising approach to providing Treat-to-Target (T2T) care for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). PM depends on providing standardized, on-time disease activity…
Abstract Number: 2317 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Different Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Measures Often Provide Discordant Results in Clinical Practice Populations
Gary Crump¹, James Bower², Terrence Foley³, J. Timothy Harrington², Nikita Hegde⁴, Drew Johnson⁵, Rafia Khalil⁶, Edmund LaCour⁷ and Robert Perhala⁸, ¹Rheumatology Associates - Louisville, Louisville, KY, ²Joiner Associates LLC, Madison, WI, ³Terrence Foley MD Inc, Concord Twp, OH, ⁴Akron General Hospital, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, ⁵Crescendo Bioscience, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ⁶Rafia Khalil Arthritis & Rheumatology Center, PC, Port Huron, MI, ⁷Dothan Medical Associates PC, Dothan, AL, ⁸University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
Background/Purpose: Accurate rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity assessment is required for treatment consistent with Treat-to-Target (T2T) recommendations. Rheumatologists currently use a variety of patient-generated, physician-generated,…
Abstract Number: 1027 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Assessment Frequencies in Clinical Practices Do Not Support Treat-to-Target Care
David Sikes¹, James Bower², Drew Johnson³, J. Timothy Harrington², Rafia Khalil⁴, Edmund LaCour⁵, Michael Naarendorp⁶, Hillary Norton⁷ and Kathleen Thomas⁸, ¹Rheumatology, Florida Medical Clinic PA, Zephyrhills, FL, ²Joiner Associates LLC, Madison, WI, ³Crescendo Bioscience, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ⁴Rafia Khalil Arthritis & Rheumatology Center, PC, Port Huron, MI, ⁵Dothan Medical Associates PC, Dothan, AL, ⁶Harlem Rhematology, LLC, New York, NY, ⁷Rheumatology, Santa Fe Rheumatology, Santa Fe, NM, ⁸Community Rheumatology, Noblesville, IN
Background/Purpose: Treat-to-Target (T2T) recommendations for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care include standardized frequencies of disease activity (DA) assessment based on DA level. For this study, "on…