Abstracts tagged "rheumatic disease and socio-economic inequities"

Abstract Number: 2254 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Socio-Economically Deprived Patients Have a Higher Likelihood for Having Any Type of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases and Have Higher Healthcare Costs – Results from a Population-Based Administrative Database Including 1.9 Million Persons (Basque country, Spain)
Polina Putrik¹, Sofia Ramiro², Jon Orueta³, Edurne Alonso Moran⁴, Roberto Nuno Solinis⁵ and Annelies Boonen⁶, ¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³Centro de Salud de Astrabudua, Osakidetza, Basque Health Service, Erandio, Spain, ⁴O+berri, Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Barakaldo, Spain, ⁵Universidad Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, ⁶Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are prevalent and have a strong impact on health care costs. Some evidence in specific diseases indicates that patients…