Abstracts tagged "race/ethnicity and socioeconomic factors"

Abstract Number: 218 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Social Factors and Racial Disparities in Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes
Susan M. Goodman¹, Bella Y. Mehta², Meng Zhang³, Jackie Szymonifka⁴, Joseph T. Nguyen³, Yuo-Yu Lee³, Mark P. Figgie⁵, Michael L. Parks⁵, Shirin A. Dey⁴, Daisy B. Crego⁴, Linda A. Russell⁶, Lisa A. Mandl⁷ and Anne R. Bass⁶, ¹Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ²Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine/Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, ³Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁵Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Socioeconomic factors such as poverty may mediate racial disparities in health outcomes including those of total hip arthroplasty (THA), and confound analyses of differences…
Abstract Number: 931 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Health Care Utilization Among Medicaid Enrollees with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Preceding the Development of End-Stage Renal Disease: Sociodemographic Variation
Candace H. Feldman¹, Linda T. Hiraki², Graciela S. Alarcon³, Jinoos Yazdany⁴, Jun Liu⁵, Michael A. Fischer⁶, Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer⁷ and Karen H. Costenbader⁸, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital/ Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ³Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁵Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Boston, MA, ⁶Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁷Division of Nephrology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁸Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Extreme sociodemographic disparities exist among systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients in the development of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) from lupus nephritis. Better resource allocation…