Abstracts tagged "socioeconomic factors"

Abstract Number: 1782 • ACR Convergence 2022
Sociocultural and Moral Factors Influencing the Decision to Vaccinate Among Rheumatic Patients: A Qualitative Study
Tirsa Colmenares-Roa¹, Amaranta ManriquedeLara², Virginia Pascual Ramos³, JOSE FRANCISCO MOCTEZUMA RIOS⁴, Irazu Contreras-Ibañez⁵, Everardo Alvarez-Hernandez⁶, Guillermo Guaracha Basañez⁷, Graciela Meza-LópezyOlguin⁴ and Ingris Pelaez-Ballestas¹, ¹Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ²Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga,", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁴HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MEXICO "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁵Instituto Nacional de Nutricion Salvador Zubirán, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁶Hospital General de Mexico "Dr.Eduardo Liceaga", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁷Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirn", Ciudad de México, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Vaccination is a process that involves individual, social and moral aspects, beyond public governance of vaccines or vaccination as a public health concern. The…
Abstract Number: 0114 • ACR Convergence 2022
Addressing Healthcare Disparities Through Implementation of a Medical Student-Based Patient Navigator Program
Grace Shadid¹, Zaid Nakadar¹, Miar Elaskandrany¹, Huchong Cai¹, Alejandra Moncayo¹, Ayten Sergios¹, Marcos Vargas¹, Jeremy Wilson¹, Naureen Kabani², Olga Dvorkina¹ and Ellen M. Ginzler², ¹SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, ²SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Department of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY
Background/Purpose: African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Hispanic patients diagnosed with rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) exhibit more severe disease manifestations compared to white…
Abstract Number: 2092 • ACR Convergence 2022
Greater Social Vulnerability Associates with Greater Glucocorticoid Use in Patients with SLE
Avira Som¹, Lily McMorrow¹, Ling Chen¹, Deepali Sen¹, Alia El-Qunni¹, Elizabeth Baker² and Alfred Kim¹, ¹Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ²Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice, St. Louis, MO
Background/Purpose: Patients with SLE experience substantial health disparities. Studying the effect of spatial context on health outcomes has become a focus in health disparities research.…
Abstract Number: 0122 • ACR Convergence 2022
Documentation of Social Determinants of Health Among Individuals with Systemic Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Sciaska Ulysse, Mia Chandler, Leah Santacroce, Tianrun Cai, Katherine Liao and Candace Feldman, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Social determinants of health (SDoH), "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age" (World Health Organization, 2022), directly influence health…
Abstract Number: 0344 • ACR Convergence 2022
Therapeutic Thresholds of Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels: Physiologic and Social Determinants of Low Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels
Shivani Garg¹, Betty Chewning², Brad Astor³ and Christie Bartels⁴, ¹University of Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ²University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, ³University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, ⁴University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Background/Purpose: Lupus, the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in young women, is treated with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) which is primarily excreted by kidneys. Yet…
Abstract Number: 0376 • ACR Convergence 2022
The Socioeconomic Profile of Patients with Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis Is Associated with the Severity of the Disease and with the Permanent Disability. a Cluster Analysis in a National Spanish Registry
Clementina Lopez-Medina¹, Desiree Ruiz-Vilchez², Maria Angeles Puche Larrubia³, lourdes Ladehesa-Pineda⁴, Pilar Font⁵ and Eduardo Collantes⁵, ¹Reina Sofia University Hospital, Rheumatology Department, Jaén, Spain, ²Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain, ³Reina Sofia University Hospital/Rheumatology Department/Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC), Granada, Spain, ⁴Reina Sofia University Hospital/Rheumatology Department/Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain, ⁵IMIBIC/University of Cordoba/Reina Sofia Hospital, Cordoba, Spain
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have demonstrated that male gender and higher level of education are independently associated with a lower hazard of sick leave in patients…
Abstract Number: 0382 • ACR Convergence 2022
Factors Associated with Diagnostic Delay in Axial Spondyloarthritis: Impact of Clinical Factors and Social Vulnerability
Gregory McDermott¹, Faith Selzer¹, Sizheng Zhao², Joerg Ermann³ and Jeffrey Katz¹, ¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²University of Manchester, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) experience significant delay between symptom onset and diagnosis. Determinants of delay are incompletely understood. We investigated the associations between…
Abstract Number: 0704 • ACR Convergence 2022
Clinically Suspect Arthralgia Patients with a Low Educational Attainment Have an Increased Risk to Develop Inflammatory Arthritis
Sarah J.H. Khidir¹, Anna M.P. Boeren², Annelies Boonen³, Pascal de Jong⁴, Elise van Mulligen⁵ and Annette van der Helm-van Mil⁶, ¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ²Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, ³Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands, ⁴ErasmusMC, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Netherlands, ⁵Erasmus Medical Center, Leiden University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Leiden University Medical Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Cross-sectional studies have shown that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is more prevalent among people with a lower educational attainment. To date, no longitudinal data are…
Abstract Number: 0744 • ACR Convergence 2022
University of North Carolina and Piedmont Health Collaborative Tele-Rheumatology Project to Optimize Rural Health Specialty Access
Leah Bettner¹, Eli Tiller², John Doughton², Rumey Ishizawar¹ and Alfredo Rivadeneira¹, ¹University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ²University of North Carolina Department of Family Medicine, Piedmont Health Services, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: Telemedicine can offset barriers rural minority populations face for rheumatology care. However, implementing virtual health technology is challenging as broadband adoption is lower among…
Abstract Number: 0091 • ACR Convergence 2022
Association of Area-Level Heat and Social Vulnerability with Recurrent Hospitalizations Among Individuals with Rheumatic Conditions
Leah Santacroce, Paul Dellaripa, Karen Costenbader, Jamie collins and Candace Feldman, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: The neighborhood where a person lives influences health behaviors, access, and outcomes, and contributes to disparities. The relationship between susceptibility to the effects of…
Abstract Number: 0830 • ACR Convergence 2022
Lymphopenia as a Marker of Disease Activity and Severity in Sarcoidosis
Michael Manansala, Christian Ascoli and Nadera Sweiss, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by granuloma formation. Clinical manifestations are heterogenous, but most commonly affect the pulmonary system. Current biomarkers lack…
Abstract Number: 0093 • ACR Convergence 2022
Comparison of Faculty and Fellow Prescribing Patterns for Rheumatoid Arthritis in an Urban, Academic Hospital
Ana Valle¹, Xianhong Xie², Don-Andre Jackson³ and Irene Blanco⁴, ¹Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Department of Epidemiology & Population Health/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ³Griffin Health, Stamford, CT, ⁴Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Timely initiation of DMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is necessary to prevent significant morbidity and mortality. Yet, patients from marginalized groups are less likely…
Abstract Number: 0833 • ACR Convergence 2022
Disability Among Persons with Chronic Severe Back Pain: Results from a Nationally Representative Population Based Sample
Debbie Feldman¹ and Richard Nahin², ¹University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada, ²NIH, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: With the high prevalence of back pain and the high costs associated with the cases that become chronic there has been an emphasis on…
Abstract Number: 0094 • ACR Convergence 2022
Black Patients Are Less Satisfied with the Hospital Experience After Primary Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
John Gibbons¹, Orett Burke¹, huong do¹, Emily Ying Lai¹, Bella Mehta², Letitia Bradford³, Michael Parks¹, Linda Russell¹, Anne Bass⁴, Mark Figgie¹ and Susan Goodman¹, ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services, Sacramento, CA, ⁴Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
Background/Purpose:Patients' post-operative satisfaction with their hospital experience is important to patient care, hospital reimbursement, and comparison between hospitals. The Press Ganey (PG) inpatient survey is…
Abstract Number: 0869 • ACR Convergence 2022
Behavioral Health Outcomes and Social Determinants of Health in Children with Juvenile Arthritis Compared to Children with Diabetes and Healthy Children
Francesca Lupini¹, Eleanor Mackey², Tamar Rubinstein³, Stephanie Merwin¹ and Sangeeta Sule¹, ¹Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, ²Children's National Hosptial, Washington, DC, ³Albert Einstein College of Medicine, White Plains, NY
Background/Purpose: Autoimmune illnesses, such as arthritis and diabetes, share some common characteristics, such as daily impact and the invisible nature, which may increase risk for…

All abstracts accepted to ACR Convergence are under media embargo once the ACR has notified presenters of their abstract’s acceptance. They may be presented at other meetings or published as manuscripts after this time but should not be discussed in non-scholarly venues or outlets. The following embargo policies are strictly enforced by the ACR.

Accepted abstracts are made available to the public online in advance of the meeting and are published in a special online supplement of our scientific journal, Arthritis & Rheumatology. Information contained in those abstracts may not be released until the abstracts appear online. In an exception to the media embargo, academic institutions, private organizations, and companies with products whose value may be influenced by information contained in an abstract may issue a press release to coincide with the availability of an ACR abstract on the ACR website. However, the ACR continues to require that information that goes beyond that contained in the abstract (e.g., discussion of the abstract done as part of editorial news coverage) is under media embargo until 10:00 AM ET on November 14, 2024. Journalists with access to embargoed information cannot release articles or editorial news coverage before this time. Editorial news coverage is considered original articles/videos developed by employed journalists to report facts, commentary, and subject matter expert quotes in a narrative form using a variety of sources (e.g., research, announcements, press releases, events, etc.).

Violation of this policy may result in the abstract being withdrawn from the meeting and other measures deemed appropriate. Authors are responsible for notifying colleagues, institutions, communications firms, and all other stakeholders related to the development or promotion of the abstract about this policy. If you have questions about the ACR abstract embargo policy, please contact ACR abstracts staff at [email protected].