B O O K - American College of Rheumatology

ACR Poster Session B
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980. The Direct Assessment of Nonvertebral Fractures in
Community Experience (DANCE) Study: 2-Year Nonvertebral
Fragility Fracture Results. Stuart L. Silverman 2 , Paul Miller 4 ,
Anthony I. Sebba 1 , Michael Weitz 3 , Xiaohai Wan 5 , Kathleen
Taylor 5 , Valerie Ruff 5 and Kelly D. Krohn 6 , 1 Arthritis Associates,
Palm Harbor, FL, 2 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of
California Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA, 3 Center Arthritis and
Rheumatology, South Miami, FL, 4 Colorado Center for Bone
Research, Lakewood, CO, 5 Eli Lilly and Company and/or One of
Its Subsidiaries, Indianapolis, IN, 6 Lilly USA, LLC, Indianapolis, IN.
981. The Effects of Biologics on Bone Metabolism of Patients with
Rheumatoid Arthritis. Tadashi Okano, Masahiro Tada, Shigeyuki
Wakitani, Hiroaki Nakamura and Tatsuya Koike, Osaka City Univ
Med School, Osaka, Japan.
982. The Effects of Denosumab (DMAb) on Bone Mineral Density
(BMD), Fracture and Safety Outcomes by Level of Renal
Function. Sophie A. Jamal 8 , Peter R. Ebeling 7 , Osten Ljunggren 9 ,
Catherine Stehman-Breen 1 , Steven R. Cummings 5 , Michael R.
McClung 4 , Stefan Goemaere 3 , Edward Franek 2 , Yu-Ching Yang 1 ,
Ogo I. Egbuna 1 and Paul Miller 6 , 1 Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks,
CA, 2 Central Clinical Hospital, Warsaw, Poland, 3 Ghent University
Hospital, Belgium, 4 Oregon Osteoporosis Center, Portland, OR,
5
San Francisco Coordinating Center, CPMC Research Institute
and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,
6
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, CO, 7 University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 8 University of Toronto,
Toronto, ON, Canada, 9 Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden.
983. The Serum Level of Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin (ucOC)
in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis – A High Dose
of Predonisolone Decrease the Serum Level of ucOC.
Yoshitada Sakai 2 , Akira Hashiramoto 4 , Teppei Hashimoto 4 ,
Yoshiko Kawasaki 4 , Chihiro Tanaka 4 , Shunichi Shiozawa 3 and
Masahiro Kurosaka 1 , 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 2 The Center of
Rheumatic Diseases, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo,
Japan, 3 The Center of Rheumatic Diseases, Kobe University
Hospital, Kobe, Japan, 4 The Center of Rheumatic Diseases, Kobe
University Hospital.
Quality Measures and Innovation in Practice Management and
Care Delivery
984. “Early Arthritis: Early Act”. A Community-Based Knowledge
Transfer Program To Improve Ability of General Practitionner
to Rapidly Detect and Refer to the Rheumatologist Patients
with Early Arthritis. Bruno Fautrel 3 , Patrick Froger 1 , Cecile
Gaujoux-Viala 2 and Eric Leutenegger, 1 Lyon, France, 2 Paris,
France, 3 Pitie Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France.
985. A Checklist of 10 Measures, 6 from a Patient Questionnaire
& 4 Physician Global Scores, Requiring