Abstracts tagged "systemic sclerosis and Health Care"

Abstract Number: 2591 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Hospitalization Among Incident Cases of Systemic Sclerosis: Results from a Population-based Cohort (1980-2016)
Caitrin Coffey¹, Avneek Singh Sandhu ², Cynthia Crowson ³, Sara Achenbach ¹, Eric Matteson ⁴, Thomas Osborn ⁵, Kenneth Warrington ⁶ and Ashima Makol ⁵, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²kettering health, dayton, OH, ³Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, ⁴Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Rochester, ⁵Mayo Clinic Minnesota, rochester, MN, ⁶Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disorder associated with multi-organ dysfunction, requiring long-term and multi-disciplinary care. Few studies have estimated the healthcare resource usage…