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Abstracts tagged "treat to target"

  • Abstract Number: 0282 • ACR Convergence 2021

    5-Year Cardiovascular Event Risk in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Received Treat-to-Target Management: A Population-based Cohort Study

    Tsz On Lam1 and Lai-Shan Tam2, 1Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (People's Republic)

    Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with higher cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk due to the underlying inflammation.It is uncertain if the excess CV risk could…
  • Abstract Number: 0803 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Rheumatoid Arthritis Practice Performance (RAPP) Project at 6 Years: Population Medicine (POPMED) Principles and Treat to Target (T2T) Care Yield Dramatic Improvements in Both Outcomes and Access for RA Patients and Productivity for Rheumatologists

    William Arnold1, Erin Arnold1, David Sikes2, Gary Crump3, Kathleen Thomas4 and andrew johnson5, 1Arnold Arthritis and Rheumatology, Wilmette, IL, 2Florida Medical Clinic, Wesley Chapel, FL, 3Rheumatology Associates, Louisville, KY, 4Community Health Network, Noblesville, IN, 5PopMed Solutions, Boyds, MD

    Background/Purpose: The RAPP quality improvement project is a voluntary consortium of practicing rheumatologists founded in 2013 by Timothy Harrington MD, MACR. The primary focus is…
  • Abstract Number: 1895 • ACR Convergence 2021

    Achievement of Target Serum Uric Acid Among Gout Patients Treated with Long-term Urate Lowering Therapy in the ACR’s Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry

    Nevin Hammam, Jing Li, Julia L Kay, Jinoos Yazdany and Gabriela Schmajuk, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    Background/Purpose: The American College of Rheumatology’s (ACR) 2012 guidelines for the management of gout recommend using a treat-to-target (T2T) approach to lower serum uric acid…
  • Abstract Number: 255 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019

    Designing and Testing Treat to Target as a New Care Model in JIA Across a Network of Pediatric Rheumatology Centers

    Esi Morgan1, Janalee Taylor 2, Tingting Qiu 3, Nancy Griffin 2, Anne Paul 2, Catherine Bingham 4, Danielle Bullock 5, Kerry Ferraro 6, Y Goh 7, Mileka Gilbert 8, Olha Halyabar 9, Karla Jones 10, Melanie Kohlheim 11, Daniel J. Lovell 12, Darby MacDonald 10, Emily Smitherman 13, Anjie Vago 14, Jennifer Weiss 15, Cagri Yildirim-Toruner 10, Angela Young 16, Michelle Batthish 17, Beth Gottlieb 18, Julia Harris 19, Melissa Hazen 20, Ronald Laxer 7, Tzielan Lee 21, Melissa Mannion 22, Judyann Olson 23, MIchael Shishov 24, Sheetal Vora 25 and Jonathan Burnham 26, 1Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, University of Cincinnati, Cinncinati, OH, 2Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 3Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 4Penn State Hershey Children's, Hershey, 5University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 6PR-CON Parent Working Group, Fort Washington, PA, 7Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 8Medical Univeristy of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 9Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, 10Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, 11PR-COIN Parent Working Group, Columbus, OH, 12Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, 13University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 14PR-COIN Parent Working Group, Hershey, PA, 15Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, 16PR-COIN Parent Working Group, Lexington, KY, 17McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 18Cohen Children's Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY, 19Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, 20Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 21Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, 22Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, 23Medical College of WIsconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 24Phoenix Children's, Phoenix, AZ, 25Levine Children's, Charlotte, NC, 26The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

    Background/Purpose: In 2018 an international task force published a recommended Treat to Target (T2T) approach to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) treatment.  In February 2019, 17…
  • Abstract Number: 2389 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019

    Treat to Target by Specific Cytokine Interdiction: Multiple Biomarker Disease Activity Test Deconstructed

    L Douglas Graham 1 and Lee Graham1, 1Du Page Medical Group, Westmont, IL

    Background/Purpose: Rheumatologists have been encouraged to achieve low disease activity state when treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA).  If it cannot be achieved with initial therapy, experts…
  • Abstract Number: 2832 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019

    Using a Learning Collaborative to Develop an RA Disease Activity Communication Tool to Promote Shared Decision-Making in Treat to Target

    Lucy Liu1, Sonam Choden 2, Jennifer Barton 3, Puneet Bajaj 4, Christie Bartels 5, Maria Danila 6, Elizabeth Wahl 7, Kimberly Reiter 8, Joann Zell 9, Christina Downey, MD 10, Elena Weinstein 11, Gabriela Schmajuk 2 and Jinoos Yazdany 12, 1UCSF, Oakland, CA, 2UCSF, SFVAMC Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA, 3VA Portland Health Care System & Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 4UT Southwestern, Dallas, 5University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, 6University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 7VA Puget Sound, Seattle, WA, 8Albuquerque VA Medical Center, University of NM School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, 9Denver Health, Denver, CO, 10Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma LInda, CA, 11University of Colorado Department of Rheumatology, Denver, CO, 12UCSF Division of Rheumatology, San Francisco, CA

    Background/Purpose: A treat to target (T2T) approach in managing RA can improve patient outcomes. A key component to T2T is establishing personalized treatment targets through…

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