High Adherence to System-Level Performance Measures for Rheumatoid Arthritis in a National Early Arthritis Cohort Over Eight Years.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess adherence to 3 system-level performance measures in a national early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cohort.

Methods

Patients enrolled in the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort (2007-2015) who met 1987 or 2010 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism criteria with <1 year of symptom duration and ≥1 year of followup after enrollment were included. Performance measures assessed were the percentage of RA patients seen in yearly followup, and the number of gaps between visits of >12 or >14 months, the percentage of RA patients treated with a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD), and days from RA diagnosis to initiation of a DMARD. Results are shown stratified by enrollment year to assess for temporal changes in performance.

Result

SUBMITTER: Barber CEH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001563 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature