Observational studyArthritis care & research2018
High Adherence to System-Level Performance Measures for Rheumatoid Arthritis in a National Early Arthritis Cohort Over Eight Years.
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- Characterizing Nonarticular Pain at Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis: Evolution Over the First Year of Treatment and Impact on Remission in a Prospective Real-World Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Observational
- Adherence to treatment and associated factors in rheumatoid arthritis in Kurdish patients: a cross-sectional study.Reumatologia · 2025Article
- Identification of Gaps in Quality of Care and Good Practice Interventions in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Insights From a Literature Review and Qualitative Study of Nine Centers in North America.ACR open rheumatology · 2024Article
- A Population-Based Study Evaluating Retention in Rheumatology Care Among Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis.ACR open rheumatology · 2022Article
- A Canadian evaluation framework for quality improvement in childhood arthritis: key performance indicators of the process of care.Arthritis research & therapy · 2020Review
- Testing population-based performance measures identifies gaps in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) care.BMC health services research · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess adherence to 3 system-level performance measures in a national early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cohort.
methodsPatients 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.
resultsA total of 1,763 early RA patients were included (mean age 54 years, 73% female, and 82% white). At enrollment, mean ± SD disease duration was 6 ± 3 months, and Disease Activity Score in 28 joints was 5.1 ± 1.5. Over 8 years, the proportion of patients seen in annual followup declined from 100% to 91%. Over followup, 42% of patients had 0 gaps in care of >12 months, and 64% had 0 gaps >14 months. The percentage of DMARD-treated early RA patients was and remained high (95-87%), and the percentage receiving DMARDs within 14 days of diagnosis was 75%. Median time-to-DMARD therapy was 1 day, indicating DMARDs were initiated at diagnosis (90th percentile 93 days).
conclusionThere was evidence of high adherence to system-level performance measures in this early RA cohort following a protocol. Small declines in performance were noted with increasing length of patient followup. Our findings are useful for performance measure benchmarking.
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