Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness Registry Participation Associated With Significant Gains in Quality Measure Performance: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Main finding · Improvement rate in RA functional status assessmentResult — go to the resultSlope difference 0.88 percentage points/monthAuthors' conclusion
RISE enrollment was associated with significant improvements in three of four rheumatology-specific quality measures for practices with lower baseline performance.
Study context
- Population
- Practices that joined the ACR's Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) registry between 2015 and 2021331,975 patients
- Participants
- 85 participants
- Exposure
- Practice-level quality measure performance before vs after RISE registry enrollment
- Outcome
- Annual performance on four primary quality measures
- Follow-up
- 12 months before through 18 months after enrollment
Methodological detailsregistry-based, stratified by baseline performance
- Registry-based
- Stratified by baseline performance
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Improvement rate in RA functional status assessment
Slope difference
0.88 percentage points/month
P = 0.006
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Improvement after joining RISE by baseline performance (subgroup)
- Lower-baseline practices had significantly greater improvements than high-performing practices for 3 of 4 primary measures: RA functional status assessment, TB screening before biologic therapy, osteoporosis screening
Original publication
Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness Registry Participation Associated With Significant Gains in Quality Measure Performance: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Arthritis Rheumatol. Published 17 September 2026. doi:10.
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