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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Division of Adult and Community Health
Health Care and Aging Studies Branch
Arthritis Program
Mailstop K-51
4770 Buford Highway NE
Atlanta, GA 30341-3724
Phone: 770.488.5464
Fax: 770.488.5964
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CDC-Funded Science
Algorithm to Identify Clinically Significant Arthritis with Functional
Limitation
Funding number:
CDC/200-2006-M-6444
Project description
The project goal is to explore using available
administrative data to identify patients with clinically significant
arthritis and functional limitation in a managed care setting and target them for possible intervention. This group with limitation is
of particular interest because they are most likely to be receptive
to interventions to improve their situation. Because there may be many
patients with mild disease who may be getting by with self-medication
and not feel ready or motivated to engage in any further interventions,
identifying those who may more readily adopt any interventions because
of more severe disease (pain, dysfunction, limitations, inability to
engage in valued activities) would help target intervention
outreach and make a more useful algorithm to health care systems
and HMOs.
This project is a follow-up to a
completed case definition validation
study done at Fallon Clinic between November 2001 and October 2002.
The studied classified 389 patients as having clinically
significant arthritis or not and functional limitation. This effort uses the study
data to evaluate the performance of
newly developed algorithms using data from computerized administrative
records at Fallon Clinic to identify patients with clinically
significant arthritis and functional limitation.
Project objective
The program objectives is to develop an algorithm to easily and
accurately identify patients with clinically significant arthritis and
functional limitation in managed care settings using administrative
data.
Abstracts, publications, presentations
Harrold LR, Li W, Yood RA, Fuller J, Gorwitz JH. Identification of
patients with arthritis and functional limitations administrative data.
J Pub Health Management and Practice 2008 (in press).
Principal investigator
Leslie Harrold, M.D., M.P.H.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
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Page last reviewed: June 8, 2008
Page last modified: June 8, 2008
Content Source: Division of
Adult and Community Health,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
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