Merging Veterans Affairs rheumatoid arthritis registry and pharmacy data to assess methotrexate adherence and disease activity in clinical practice

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1680-1690

  Cannon, Grant W ^a   Mikuls, Ted R ^b   Hayden, Candace L ^a   Ying, Jian ^c   Curtis, Jeffrey R ^d   Reimold, Andreas M ^e   Caplan, Liron ^f   Kerr, Gail S ^g   Richards, J Steuart ^g   Johnson, Dannette S ^h   Sauer, Brian C ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; METHOTREXATE; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARMACY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA MINING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DATA MINING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84863049921     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.20629     Document Type: Article

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