作者
Maryam A Adas, Sam Norton, Sathiyaa Balachandran, Edward Alveyn, Mark D Russell, Thomas Esterine, Paul Amlani-Hatcher, Sarah Oyebanjo, Heidi Lempp, Joanna Ledingham, Kanta Kumar, James B Galloway, Shirish Dubey
发表日期
2023/1/1
期刊
Rheumatology
卷号
62
期号
1
页码范围
169-180
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Objective
To assess variability in care quality and treatment outcomes across ethnicities in early inflammatory arthritis (EIA).
Methods
We conducted an observational cohort study in England and Wales from May 2018 to March 2020, including patients with a suspected/confirmed EIA diagnosis. Care quality was assessed against six metrics defined by national guidelines. Clinical outcomes were measured using DAS28. Outcomes between ethnic groups (‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Asian’, ‘Mixed’, ‘Other’) were compared, and adjusted for confounders.
Results
A total of 35 807 eligible patients were analysed. Of those, 30 643 (85.6%) were White and 5164 (14.6%) were from ethnic minorities: 1035 (2.8%) Black; 2617 (7.3%) Asian; 238 (0.6%) Mixed; 1274 (3.5%) Other. In total, 12 955 patients had confirmed EIA, of whom 11 315 were White and 1640 were from …
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