Healthcare resource utilisation and pain medication prescriptions by SLEDAI score category for clinician-recorded scores and eSLEDAI score categories
| SLEDAI score category | ||||||
| No activity (N=1900) | Mild activity (N=2483) | Moderate activity (N=1752) | High/Very high activity (N=882) | Total (N=7017) | ||
| Clinician-recorded SLEDAI | ||||||
| No of inpatient days | Mean (SD) | 0.3 (1.7) | 0.4 (3.1) | 0.5 (3.1) | 0.7 (5.0) | 0.4 (3.1) |
| Median (Q1-Q3) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | |
| Any pain medication prescriptions | Yes | 279 (14.7%) | 477 (19.2%) | 498 (28.4%) | 266 (30.2%) | 1520 (21.7%) |
| eSLEDAI | ||||||
| No of inpatient days | Mean (SD) | 0.5 (4.7) | 0.8 (4.9) | 0.7 (4.1) | 0.7 (8.3) | 0.6 (5.4) |
| Median (Q1–Q3) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | 0 (0–0) | |
| Any pain medication prescriptions | Yes | 2433 (11.4%) | 2600 (15.6%) | 2598 (18.6%) | 2451 (23.8%) | 10 082 (16.2%) |
Note: Inpatient days and ER visits are included if they occur within a 12-month window (±6 months) of the SLEDAI score date. Pain medication prescriptions are included if they occur within a 90-day window (±45 days) of the SLEDAI score date.
ER, emergency room; SLEDAI, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index.