Abstracts tagged "registry"

Abstract Number: 515 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Dosing of Intravenous Tocilizumab in a Real-World Setting—Analyses from a US RA Registry
Dimitrios A. Pappas¹, Ani John², Jeffrey R. Curtis³, George W. Reed^4,5, Chitra Karki⁶, Robert Magner⁵, Joel M. Kremer⁷, Ashwini Shewade² and Jeffrey D. Greenberg^6,8, ¹Columbia University, New York, NY, ²Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Corrona, LLC., Southborough, MA, ⁵University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, ⁶Corrona, LLC, Southborough, MA, ⁷Albany Medical College and The Center for Rheumatology, Albany, NY, ⁸NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: In the US, the recommended starting dose of intravenous tocilizumab (TCZ) in combination with DMARDs or as monotherapy is 4 mg/kg every 4 weeks…
Abstract Number: 382 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
What Is More Predictive of Achieving Remission at 12 Months: The Percentage of Baseline Improvement or the Actual Disease State Achieved at 6 Months?
Edward C. Keystone¹, Carter Thorne², Michael Starr³, Jude Rodrigues⁴, Philip Baer⁵, Regan Arendse⁶, J. Antonio Avina-Zubieta⁷, Denis Choquette⁸, Emmanouil Rampakakis⁹, John S. Sampalis⁹, May Shawi¹⁰, Francois Nantel¹⁰, Allen J Lehman¹¹ and Susan Otawa¹¹, ¹Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ³Rheumatology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Clinical Research and Arthritis Centre, Windsor, ON, Canada, ⁵Private Practice, Scarborough, ON, Canada, ⁶University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁷Rheumatology, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Richmond, BC, Canada, ⁸Rheumatology, Institut de rhumatologie de Montréal (IRM), Montréal, QC, Canada, ⁹JSS Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰Janssen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹Medical Affairs, Janssen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: The aim of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment is to optimize symptom control and, when possible, achieve sustained remission. Therefore, identification of clinical signs predicting…
Abstract Number: 365 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Differential Relative Contribution of Individual Components on DAS28 over Time: An Analysis from the Prospective, Observational, Biological Treatment Registry Across Canada
Denis Choquette¹, Dalton Sholter², Isabelle Fortin³, Michael Starr⁴, Carter Thorne⁵, Milton Baker⁶, Regan Arendse⁷, Philip Baer⁸, Michel Zummer⁹, Jude Rodrigues¹⁰, Maqbool Sheriff¹¹, Emmanouil Rampakakis¹², John S. Sampalis¹², Francois Nantel¹³, Allen J Lehman¹⁴, Susan Otawa¹⁴ and May Shawi¹³, ¹Rheumatology, Notre Dame Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ³Centre de Rhumatologie de l'Est du Québec, Rimouski, QC, Canada, ⁴Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁶University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, ⁷University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ⁸Private Practice, Scarborough, ON, Canada, ⁹Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁰Clinical Research and Arthritis Centre, Windsor, ON, Canada, ¹¹Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Nanaimo, BC, Canada, ¹²JSS Medical Research, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹³Janssen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁴Medical Affairs, Janssen Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose DAS28 is an important outcome for clinical research and practice assisting with therapeutic decisions. The main contributors to DAS28 are joint tenderness and acute-phase…

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