Abstracts tagged "quality of care"

Abstract Number: 0643 • ACR Convergence 2021
Tailored BP Connect Protocol with Implementation Support for Rheumatology Clinic Staff Exceeds Non-tailored Protocol at Improving Primary Care Referrals for Blood Pressure Follow-up
David Gazeley¹, Monica Messina², Edmond Ramly², Ann Rosenthal¹, Laurie Lapp², Laura Stewart³ and Christie Bartels², ¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ³Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Background/Purpose: Many rheumatic diseases increase risk of cardiovascular disease, yet an important modifiable cardiovascular risk factor, high blood pressure (BP), often remains unaddressed during rheumatology…
Abstract Number: 1717 • ACR Convergence 2021
One Year After the Publication of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Guidelines for Management of Reproductive Health in Rheumatic Diseases, Has Anything Changed? An Analysis of Rheumatology Practice at a Tertiary Care Medical Center
Yixuan Zhou¹ and Sobia Hassan², ¹Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ²RUSH University, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Successful pregnancies in patients with rheumatic disease are possible when they are well-monitored, adequately treated, and planned during periods of disease quiescence. Previously, a…
Abstract Number: 0644 • ACR Convergence 2021
Follow-up Scheduling Appears Essential for Success of Rheumatology High Blood Pressure Protocol Across Health Systems
Christie Bartels, Bret Hanlon, Monica Messina, Sancia Ferguson and Edmond Ramly, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: To address high blood pressure (BP), target of two ACR quality measures and the leading modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, we previously developed…
Abstract Number: 1726 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Pregnancy Planning Quality Score to Assess a Systematic Intervention to Improve Pregnancy Planning for Women with SLE
Catherine Sims¹, Amanda Eudy¹, Jayanth Doss¹, Lisa Criscione-Schreiber², Kai Sun², Rebecca Sadun¹, Jennifer Rogers² and Megan Clowse³, ¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ³Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: The safest pregnancies for women with SLE coincide with periods of disease quiescence maintained by pregnancy-compatible medications. In the US, Black women are more…
Abstract Number: 0647 • ACR Convergence 2021
Adherence to Hydroxychloroquine Dosing and Teleretinal Screening: Assessment and Quality Improvement
Brendan Cerk¹, Brian Toy¹, Betty Situ¹, Stavros Savvas² and Leanna Wise³, ¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ³LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is used in many rheumatologic diseases. The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) put forth guidelines in 2012 regarding retinal screening and dosing…
Abstract Number: 1769 • ACR Convergence 2021
BMS-986256, an Oral Novel Toll-like Receptor 7 and 8 (TLR7/8) Inhibitor, Does Not Affect the Pharmacokinetics of Mycophenolate Mofetil in Healthy Subjects
Manoj Chiney¹, Ihab Girgis², Melanie Harrison¹, Xiaoping Zhang¹, Yun Shen³, Michelle Dawes¹, Lixian Dong², Diane Shevell³, Urvi Aras¹ and Bindu Murthy³, ¹Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ, ²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ³Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville
Background/Purpose: Toll like receptor (TLR) 7 and TLR8 are activated as part of the disease pathophysiology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), including lupus nephritis (LN),…
Abstract Number: 0656 • ACR Convergence 2021
A Survey Based Descriptive Study to Assess the Quality of Sleep in Rheumatic Patients
Kezia Sam¹, David Lans² and Fulvia Milite¹, ¹White Plains Hospital, White Plains, NY, ²New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, New Rochelle, NY
Background/Purpose: Sleeping difficulties although common in rheumatic patients, have often been overlooked presuming it to be part of a chronic illness. We conducted a survey-based…
Abstract Number: 1894 • ACR Convergence 2021
Natural Language Processing Tool for Extraction of Patient-Reported Outcomes from a National Multi-Electronic Health Records Registry
Marie Humbert-Droz¹, Zara Izadi², Gabriela Schmajuk², Milena Gianfrancesco², Jinoos Yazdany² and Suzanne Tamang³, ¹Stanford University, Stanford, ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Redwood City, CA
Background/Purpose: Patient reported outcomes (PROs) are increasingly used to track disease activity and facilitate shared decision making in patients with RA. Assessments of disease activity…
Abstract Number: 0139 • ACR Convergence 2021
Treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis by Primary Care Physicians and Rheumatologists in an Academic Health System: A Retrospective Study
Alexis Ogdie-Beatty¹, Marina Magrey², Robert Fitzsimmons¹, Shahrzad Abdollahi¹, Ana Biljan³, Christopher Saffore⁴ and Jessica Walsh⁵, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA, Richfield, OH, ³Abbvie Inc., Chicago, IL, ⁴AbbVie, North Chicago, IL, ⁵Salt Lake City Veteran Affairs Medical Center (VAMC)/University of Utah Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
Background/Purpose: While recommendations for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are largely aligned across various guidelines,1,2 there remains variability in the treatment. Patients with inflammatory…
Abstract Number: 0792 • ACR Convergence 2021
Remission Rates of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in a Tertiary Care
Nils Gildemeister¹, Imke Redeker², Bjoern Buehring¹, Ioana Andreica¹, David Kiefer³, Xenofon Baraliakos¹, Juergen Braun¹ and Uta Kiltz¹, ¹Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Herne, Germany, ²German Rheumatism Research Centre (DRFZ), Berlin, Germany, ³Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Essen, Germany
Background/Purpose: The main goal of treatment for patients (pts.) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is to achieve remission, in order to both, preserve physical function and…
Abstract Number: 1931 • ACR Convergence 2021
The Burden of Thirty-day Readmission and Independent Predictors of Readmission in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Nationwide Analysis
Ashu Acharya¹, Saffa Iftikhar¹, Yasmin Khader¹, Sachit Sharma¹, Joan N Gekonde¹, Rawish Fatima¹, Cameron J Burmeister¹ and Nezam Altorok², ¹University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, ²University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic immune-mediated disease with 20-25% patients needing hospital admission annually. Early readmissions add to the clinical and economic…
Abstract Number: 0148 • ACR Convergence 2021
Implementation of an Interprofessional Safety Check to Screen for Latent Tuberculosis at an Academic Tertiary Referral Rheumatology Clinic Increased Screening Rates Compared to Historical Levels
Meera Subash, Hailyn Nielsen, Neda Noori Nassr, Diana Ung and Andrew Gross, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Certain disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) increase the risk of reactivation of latent tuberculosis (TB). While screening for latent TB prior to initiation of these…
Abstract Number: 0815 • ACR Convergence 2021
Implementing Treat to Target (TTT) for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Through a Virtual Learning Collaborative (LC) Program During COVID
DH Solomon¹, Theodore Pincus², Nancy Shadick¹, Jacklyn Stratton¹, Jack Ellrodt¹, Leah Santacroce¹, Jeffrey Katz¹, Josef Smolen³, Prem Chatpar⁴, Breanna Mundell⁴, Mary Stocks⁴, Christina Downey⁵, Karina Torralba⁶, Douglas White⁷, Meggan Baudek⁷, Steven Szlembarski⁷, Sharon Barnhart⁷, Jawad Bilal⁸, Dylan Lee⁸, Albert Redford⁸, Julia Buchfuhrer⁹, Helene Kramer⁸, C. Kent Kwoh¹⁰, Michel Villatoro-Villar⁸, Asha Patnaik¹¹, Edgardo Guzman¹¹, Rebecca Trachtman¹², John Tesser¹³, Dijana Music¹⁴, Lexi Mickey¹⁵, Mona Amin¹⁶, Jeffrey Potter¹⁷, Juan Schmukler¹⁸, Joshua Sundhar¹⁹, Jessica Sheingold²⁰, Diane Horowitz²¹, Hannah Gulko²¹, Robert Quinet²², Swathi Dhulipala²³, Ronak Patel²⁴, Chandana Keshavamurthy²⁵, Guiset Carvajal Bedoya²⁶, Rhonda Dunn²⁷, Bharat Kumar²⁷, Aleksander Lenert²⁷, Hanna Zembrzuska²⁷ Matthew Gebre²⁸, Petar Lenert²⁹, Allen Anandarjah³⁰, Annie Yang³⁰, Linda Grinnell-Merrick³⁰, Shadefai Goldsmith³⁰, Jonna Zelie³⁰, Leanna Wise³¹, Nicole Zagelbaum Ward³² and Jeffrey Kaine³³ ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ³University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁴Dr. Chatpar and Associates, LLC, Plainview, NY, ⁵Loma Linda University Medical Center, Redlands, CA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Loma Linda University Healthcare, Loma Linda, CA, ⁷Gundersen Health, La Crosse, WI, ⁸University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, ⁹University of Arizona, Pheonix, AZ, ¹⁰University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tuscon, AZ, ¹¹Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, ¹²Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ¹³Arizona Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates, P.C., Phoenix, AZ, ¹⁴Arizona Arthritis and Rheumatology Associates, Glendale, AZ, ¹⁵Arthritis and Rheumatology Associates- Glendale, Glendale, AZ, ¹⁶Arthritis and Rheumatology Associates- Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, ¹⁷Arthritis & Rheumatism Associates, Wheaton, MD, ¹⁸Mount Sinai- Chicago, Chicago, IL, ¹⁹Arthritis Rheum & Back Disease Assoc., Voorhees, NJ, ²⁰MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, ²¹Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ²²Ochsner Health, River Ridge, LA, ²³Ochsner Clinic Foundation, River Ridge, LA, ²⁴Ochsner Health, Jefferson, LA, ²⁵Ochsner, New Orleans, LA, ²⁶University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²⁷University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²⁸Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA, ²⁹University of Iowa Medical School, Iowa City, IA, ³⁰University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, ³¹LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ³²LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³³Cullowhee, NC
Background/Purpose: TTT has been shown in multiple RCTs to be an effective paradigm for managing RA, however TTT has not been uniformly implemented in US…
Abstract Number: 0135 • ACR Convergence 2020
Understanding the Rheumatologist-Patient Relationship in Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis
Beth Schneider¹ and Eric Peacock¹, ¹MyHealthTeams, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Understanding patient satisfaction with their rheumatologist and the drivers of satisfaction is crucial to improving doctor-patient interactions, helping patients get on the right treatment…
Abstract Number: 0608 • ACR Convergence 2020
Patient and Parent Perspectives in a Academic Pediatric Rheumatology Transition Clinic
Rebecca Overbury¹, Tracy Frech², John Bohnsack³, CJ Inman¹, Sara Stern¹, Karen James¹, Erin Treemarcki⁴ and Aimee Hersh⁴, ¹University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, ²University of Utah and Salt Lake Veterans Affair Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, ³University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City
Background/Purpose: In November 2018 we initiated a transition clinic called ACCORD (Adult Center for Childhood Onset Rheumatic Disease). Our unique structure integrates an adult rheumatologist…

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