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P021 Uptake, safety, and effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in adults with immune mediated inflammatory diseases: a UK wide study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2024)
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Background/Aims The safety and effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccine in people with immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) is not known, which may contribute to suboptimal uptake. We investigated UK wide pneumococcal vaccine uptake in adults w... Read More about P021 Uptake, safety, and effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in adults with immune mediated inflammatory diseases: a UK wide study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

P045 Google Internet Searches Related to Inflammatory Arthritis: an Observational Study Using Google Trends Data (2024)
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Background/Aims Inflammatory arthritis (IA) care involves a paradox. Rheumatologists focus on reducing disease activity through treat-to-target (T2T). But surveys/qualitative studies show patients’ main concern is pain. As these studies include a min... Read More about P045 Google Internet Searches Related to Inflammatory Arthritis: an Observational Study Using Google Trends Data.

P047 Mortality in patients with rheumatic disease over a three year period encompassing the COVID-19 pandemic: clinically extremely vulnerable status and short form 12 scores are predictive (2024)
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Background/Aims In the United Kingdom (UK), to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, social distancing measures were implemented to varying degrees between March-2020 and December-2021. UK policy deemed patients with rheumatic dise... Read More about P047 Mortality in patients with rheumatic disease over a three year period encompassing the COVID-19 pandemic: clinically extremely vulnerable status and short form 12 scores are predictive.

OA32 A national survey of rheumatology telephone adviceline support in the United Kingdom: frontline perspectives (2024)
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Background/Aims Telephone advicelines (TALs) are a core feature of rheumatology services and highly valued by patients for providing clinical advice and support. The demand for TALs has increased since the pandemic, placing pressure on current capaci... Read More about OA32 A national survey of rheumatology telephone adviceline support in the United Kingdom: frontline perspectives.

P051 Trends in consultations for musculoskeletal pain in children and young people presenting to United Kingdom primary care: an electronic health record study (2024)
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Background/Aims Musculoskeletal pain in childhood increases the risk of such pain in adulthood but there is an absence of management guidance for this group, not helped by a lack of evidence on the extent and nature of pain in children. The aim was t... Read More about P051 Trends in consultations for musculoskeletal pain in children and young people presenting to United Kingdom primary care: an electronic health record study.

P185 Anatomical patterns of pain in primary care patients with polymyalgia rheumatica compared to the general population (2024)
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Background/Aims Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is common in older adults, causing severe pain and stiffness, particularly in the shoulder and hip girdles. A tapered course of glucocorticoids is recommended, but not always straightforward, with frequent... Read More about P185 Anatomical patterns of pain in primary care patients with polymyalgia rheumatica compared to the general population.

P086 Trends in the Incidence and Management of Gout in England: A Nationwide Study using the OpenSAFELY Platform (2024)
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Background/Aims Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis worldwide, yet one of the worst managed. Few population-level studies have evaluated how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on incidence, prevalence, management and hospitalisations for peopl... Read More about P086 Trends in the Incidence and Management of Gout in England: A Nationwide Study using the OpenSAFELY Platform.

P082 Nephrolithiasis associated with uricosuric therapies for the treatment of gout: a systematic review (2024)
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Background/Aims Uric acid nephrolithiasis is a recognised side-effect of uricosuric therapies and a contraindication to their use. The objective of this systematic review was to assess the incidence and risk of nephrolithiasis in people with gout rec... Read More about P082 Nephrolithiasis associated with uricosuric therapies for the treatment of gout: a systematic review.

P085 Implementing treat-to-target urate-lowering therapy during hospitalisations for gout flares: a prospective cohort study (2024)
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Background/Aims Hospitalisations for gout flares have doubled in England during the last 15 years. Despite this, no studies have evaluated strategies designed to increase the uptake of urate-lowering therapy (ULT) in people hospitalised for gout flar... Read More about P085 Implementing treat-to-target urate-lowering therapy during hospitalisations for gout flares: a prospective cohort study.

P064 It’s a long time to wait: exploring the support needs of people with rheumatoid arthritis starting methotrexate (2024)
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Background/Aims Methotrexate (MTX) is recommended as initial Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (DMARD) therapy for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) but often takes several months to become effective. Little is known about the support needs o... Read More about P064 It’s a long time to wait: exploring the support needs of people with rheumatoid arthritis starting methotrexate.

E041 Feasibility and acceptability of electronic patient reported outcome measures in the routine care of people with inflammatory arthritis: Haywood Arthritis Portal study (2024)
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Background/Aims Electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) assessing disease activity, function, pain, and quality of life can facilitate innovative inflammatory arthritis (IA) care, such as automating patient-initiated follow-up. This mix... Read More about E041 Feasibility and acceptability of electronic patient reported outcome measures in the routine care of people with inflammatory arthritis: Haywood Arthritis Portal study.

E036 Rheumatology nurses’ perceptions of undertaking a postgraduate education programme: a qualitative study (2024)
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Background/Aims Rheumatology nurses practising at an advanced clinical level are encouraged to undertake postgraduate study to provide an evidence base to their role. This study explored the perceptions and experiences of clinical nurse specialists (... Read More about E036 Rheumatology nurses’ perceptions of undertaking a postgraduate education programme: a qualitative study.

P182 Exercise and activity in polymyalgia rheumatica: co-creating an education resource acceptable to patients and health professionals (2024)
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Background/Aims People with PMR report experiencing pain, stiffness and weakness, often impacting everyday tasks. Many fear exercise will exacerbate symptoms and need reassurance that exercise is helpful and not harmful. However, no PMR-specific, exe... Read More about P182 Exercise and activity in polymyalgia rheumatica: co-creating an education resource acceptable to patients and health professionals.

P080 Supporting shared decision-making about osteoporosis medicines: Combining multiple methods to develop the prototype iFraP intervention (2024)
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Background/Aims Shared decision-making (SDM) is a joint process in which a person and healthcare professional work together to reach decisions about care. The iFraP (Improving uptake of Fracture Prevention drug treatments) intervention comprises comp... Read More about P080 Supporting shared decision-making about osteoporosis medicines: Combining multiple methods to develop the prototype iFraP intervention.