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Implementing Patient Monitoring and Data Collection in Routine Care NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Arthritis Registry Monitoring Database (ARMD) & Brooklyn Outcomes of Arthritis Registry Database (BOARD) Yusuf Yazıcı, MD NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases Monitoring outcomes in routine care • Why? • What do we do now? • How can we do it? • Our experience • Private practice • Academic center Tight control of disease activity – TICORA study Grigor et al, Lancet 2004 Monitoring RA patients • How do rheumatologists follow patients? • In the US, < 10% use questionnaires in routine clinical care • <15% do a joint count at each visit • Treatment decisions made on ESR/CRP values, x-rays? • At initial presentation, 40% of patients have normal ESR or CRP, 30% have no RF, and the best treatment is before Xray damage. Pincus, Segurado. Ann Rheum Dis 2006 Measurement • Most rheumatologists suggest they can recognize extent of pain and disability without questionnaires to provide quantitative data • They are correct • You can also recognize fever or tachycardia without formally measuring temperature or heart rate • Who would accept this kind of management? Pincus, Yazici, Bergman, J Rheumatol 2006 Other diseases • HTN – Blood pressure • Hyperlipidemia - Cholesterol • Thyroid - TSH • What does the rheumatologist have? VAS clustering Clustering 18% * 16% * 14% * * * 10% ** ** ** * Format 7 Format 8 Format 9 8% Format 10 * 6% ** 4% * 2% 0% 0. 0 0. 5 1. 0 1. 5 2. 0 2. 5 3. 0 3. 5 4. 0 4. 5 5. 0 5. 5 6. 0 6. 5 7. 0 7. 5 8. 0 8. 5 9. 0 9. 5 10 .0 Percent 12% * denotes square Value Pincus T, Sokka T. Ann Rheum Dis 2004 Questionnaires for standard care must be: • Completed by most patients in 5-10 minutes • Scanned by a clinician in 5-10 seconds • Designed to facilitate scoring, template on questionnaire • Scored and entered into flow sheet in 10-20 seconds • Informative for patients in all rheumatic diseases • All the work done by the patient; physician or staff do minimal work, spend few seconds. MDHAQ Multi-Dimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire • 10 ADL: overcome floor effects; normal scores in 688 patients: MHAQ 23%, HAQ 15%, MDHAQ 7% • Review of systems • Distributed at each YY visit of each patient since 2001 • Useful in all rheumatic diseases • Used in conjunction with simple flow sheet - 3 types of data: questionnaire scores, lab data, drugs Time to score Mean Time to Score 120 100 Seconds 80 60 40 20 0 28 Joint Count DAS 28 – HAQ FN enter + PN, GL numbers VAS Rheum #1 84 12.9 41.5 Rheum #2 113 16.8 42.2 Rheum #3 71 14.6 Mean of Rheum #1 #2 #3 90 14.6 41.9 HAQ – VAS MDHAQ FN + PN, GL VAS RAPID2 RAPID 3 = RAPID RAPID FN, PN, 4MD=RAP 4JC = RAPID 5 GL ID 3+MD RAPID 3 + 6.4 4.3 9.2 11.8 19 19.4 23.9 8.5 4.4 12.1 16.1 22.8 27.3 24.1 7.5 4 9.1 12 15.3 17.5 24 7.5 4.3 9.6 12.2 19 19.4 Format Practical considerations in use of MDHAQ, patient questionnaires (1) • Use a questionnaire designed for standard care, not for research • Although the information is often useful for research • Just as differences between antiCCP measurement in • clinical care and research differ, no need for lengthy research questionnaires Orient staff regarding the importance of patient questionnaires in patients care, and mean it • If rationale presented as for research, documentation, reimbursement, collaboration with colleagues, any other reason than better and more efficient patient care, it won’t work Practical considerations in use of MDHAQ • (2) Questionnaires should be part of office infrastructure, completed by every patient, with any diagnosis, every visit. • Only efficient distribution system • Impossible to organize front desk to identify • • patient, identify intervals for questionnaire distribution MDHAQ is useful for all patients with all rheumatic diseases* Data only at periodic intervals may miss important changes • If there is a reason for a visit, there is a reason for a questionnaire * Callahan et al. Arthritis Care Res 1989 Practical considerations in use of MDHAQ • Questionnaires should ideally be completed in the waiting room, not the exam room • Most patients spend 10 minutes in the waiting room • An opportunity for the patient to focus on problems • Let the patients do the work; office staff should do as little as possible • Function, pain, fatigue, global status are reported more accurately by patient self report than physicians1 • Only a single observer v second observer • Reproducibility increased2 1 Fries et al, A&R 1980, 2Callahan 1988, (3) Practical considerations in use of MDHAQ • Clinician should review the questionnaire with the patient • Most factual information that would require Q&A is eyeballed in 5 seconds • Scoring template on the questionnaire • • RAPID, 0-10 VAS, 0-3, or 0-10 function Flow sheets can be very useful • Entry into a flow sheet allows for tracking trend • Database output • No computer is required; do not overuse technology • Nothing is as cheap, available, and easy to use as pen/pencil and paper (4) Practical considerations in use of MDHAQ Constant (Required) Variable (Encouraged) Variable (optional) Physical function Psychological distress Review of systems Pain Fatigue Medications Patient global Change in status Recent medical events AM stiffness Physician global RADAI self-report joint count Physician note MD joint count (5) Things to remember • Data may be influenced by nonspecific factors • So is ESR, so is pain • MDHAQ never replaces a careful history and physical examination, data always need to be interpreted • All data needs to be put into perspective Patient Questionnaires • Most informative quantitative data for patient status from one visit to the next • Patient questionnaires not a joint count, radiographic score or laboratory test are the most significant predictors of all severe longterm outcomes in RA • Functional status1 • Work disability2 • Costs3 • Joint replacement surgery4 • Premature death5 1 Pincus et al, A&R 1984 et al, J Rheumatol 1999 3 Luback et al, A&R 1986, 4 Wolfe et al, A&R 1998, 5 Sokka et al, Ann Rheum Dis 2004 2 Sokka Patient–reported outcomes Strand et al, Rheumatology 2004 Indices Swollen joints Tender joints DAS28 SDAI CDAI + + + + + + + + + + MD global ESR/CRP Patient global Functional score Pain + + GAS RAPID ACR20 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Routine care • Why collect data? Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials 1. Foundation for evaluation of therapies 2. Meet criteria for scientific experiment 3. Only method for study patients not selected for therapies 4. Nonetheless, includes many limitations, and provides only the first stage of evaluation of therapies Some Practical Limitations of Randomized Clinical Trials • Patient selection: exclusion criteria – • only a small minority in trials, e.g., RA in 2001 • Statistically significant results not necessarily clinically important, e.g., ?ACR 20 response • Short observation period in chronic diseases • Inflexible dosage schedules and other drugs • Surrogate markers not necessarily clinically relevant Pincus and Stein. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 1997;15:S27 “real world” patients • Most patients receiving routine care for rheumatoid arthritis in 2001 did not meet inclusion criteria for most recent clinical trials or American college of rheumatology criteria for remission. Sokka T, Pincus T. J Rheumatol. 2003 Jun;30(6):1138-46 11% • Eligibility of patients in routine care for major clinical trials of antitumor necrosis factor alpha agents in rheumatoid arthritis. Sokka T, Pincus T. Arthritis Rheum. 2003 Feb;48(2):313-8. 7% • Eligibility for inclusion criteria in use for rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials in a Turkish cohort. F. Göğüş, Y. Yazıcı, H Yazıcı (ACR 2003) 6% • Majority of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in routine care do not meet inclusion criteria for RA clinical trials. I. Kulman, Y. Yazıcı (EULAR 2004) 5% BOARD Brooklyn Outcomes of Arthritis Registry Database Brooklyn Outcomes of Arthritis Registry Database (BOARD) • Since April 2001 • ~2200 patients • ~200 RA • ~150 SLE • A lot of OA • >19,000 data points (visits) Yazici, Clin Expr Rheumatol, 2005 BOARD BOARD BOARD Publications • Racial/ethnic differences among early RA patients • Use of ESR/CRP and correlation with outcomes in RA, SLE, OA patients • MTX efficacy and side effects in RA patients • RAPID/DAS28/CDAI correlation among RA patients 162 RA patients from BOARD 0 SJC 1 -5 TJC -4 -4 -3 -10 -7 -9 Pain -15 Patient global -20 -17 -18 -19 Fatigue mHAQ -25 -27 -30 -45 Morning stiffness MD global -35 -40 ESR DAS28 -37 -36 CDAI -41 RAPID HJD ARMD Arthritis Registry Monitoring Database ARMD • • September 2005 at NYU-Hospital for Joint Diseases Each patient multidimensional health assessment questionnaire • English and Spanish. • • • • • • • • • • • • • functional status pain fatigue patient global assessment of disease activity RADAI patient self joint count morning stiffness questions about current medications work status medical and surgical problems since last visit 60-question symptoms list comorbitidies exercise habits demographic information. ARMD (2) • September 2005 to January 2006, 513 patients were enrolled, • • • • • • • • 344 from the hospital clinics 169 from private offices 400 (78%) female 253 (49%) Hispanic (white=104, African American=52, Asian=34, others=70). Mean age was 53 ± 15. 374 patients used the English version of the forms (73%). The most common 3 diagnosis were rheumatoid arthritis (n=235), osteoarthritis (n=47) and SLE (n=25). When individual items were analyzed, the completion rate ranged from 88% (current medications) to 99% (MDHAQ). QUEST-RA (Quantitative Patient Questionnaire Monitoring in Standard Clinical Care of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis) • 30 rheumatology practices • 100 RA patients each • ~3000 RA patients • 1st phase – cross-sectional • 2nd phase – longitudinal • Database creation Conclusion “A conclusion is the place where you got tired ofthinking”. Arthur Block • We need to use tools to monitor our patients in routine care • Better medical care, valuable data • Saves time, focuses visits • Saves time! Questions? “ I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.” Lord Birkett, Observer, Sayings of the Week, 30 October, 1960 “We become confident in our educated guesswork to the point where it is easy to confuse personal opinion with evidence, or personal ignorance with scientific uncertainty” David Naylor, M.D., Ph.D. (1954-)