Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33728796›Full record

GuidelineArthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.)2021

American College of Rheumatology Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: Version 1.

Jeffrey R Curtis, Sindhu R Johnson, Donald D Anthony, Reuben J Arasaratnam, Lindsey R Baden, Anne R Bass, Cassandra Calabrese, Ellen M Gravallese, Rafael Harpaz, Rebecca E Sadun and 3 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readPractice Guideline
In one paragraph

Guideline in Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
91citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
34.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 242 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Trial
  5. Article
  6. Observational
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Review
  19. Article
  20. Review

31 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 12 institutions in 2 countries.

Jeffrey R CurtisUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham.ORCID 0000-0002-8907-8976
Sindhu R JohnsonToronto Western Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0591-2976
Donald D AnthonyLouis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, MetroHealth Medical Center, and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Reuben J ArasaratnamVA North Texas Health Care System and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.
Lindsey R BadenBrigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Anne R BassHospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.ORCID 0000-0002-3225-8351
Cassandra CalabreseCleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
Ellen M GravalleseBrigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Rafael HarpazHarpaz Herman Consultants, Atlanta, Georgia.
Rebecca E SadunDuke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Amy S TurnerAmerican College of Rheumatology, Atlanta, Georgia.ORCID 0000-0001-7695-2022
Eleanor Anderson WilliamsThe Permanente Medical Group, Union City, California.
Ted R MikulsUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center and VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Omaha.ORCID 0000-0002-0897-2272
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USAmerican College of Rheumatology · USCleveland Clinic · USColorado Permanente Medical Group · USDuke University · USHerman Miller (United States) · USHospital for Special Surgery · USLouis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center · USMount Sinai Hospital · CASouthwestern Medical Center · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USVA Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System · US

Funding

Methods and Health Informatics CoreP30AR072583 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI JEFFREY R. CURTIS · 2020 to 2026
$5.7M
NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR072583
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo provide guidance to rheumatology providers on the use of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines for patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs).

methodsA task force was assembled that included 9 rheumatologists/immunologists, 2 infectious disease specialists, and 2 public health physicians. After agreeing on scoping questions, an evidence report was created that summarized the published literature and publicly available data regarding COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and safety, as well as literature for other vaccines in RMD patients. Task force members rated their agreement with draft consensus statements on a 9-point numerical scoring system, using a modified Delphi process and the RAND/University of California Los Angeles Appropriateness Method, with refinement and iteration over 2 sessions. Consensus was determined based on the distribution of ratings.

resultsDespite a paucity of direct evidence, 74 draft guidance statements were developed by the task force and agreed upon with consensus to provide guidance for use of the COVID-19 vaccines in RMD patients and to offer recommendations regarding the use and timing of immunomodulatory therapies around the time of vaccination.

conclusionThese guidance statements, made in the context of limited clinical data, are intended to provide direction to rheumatology health care providers on how to best use COVID-19 vaccines and to facilitate implementation of vaccination strategies for RMD patients.

Indexed as

COVID-19 VaccinesMusculoskeletal DiseasesRheumatic DiseasesVaccinationCOVID-19HumansRheumatologyCOVID-19 Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID33728796
PMCPMC8250724
OpenAlexW3139524064

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.