... Derivation and preliminary validation of an administrative claims-based algorithm for the effectiveness of medications for rheumatoid arthritis Jeffrey R Curtis1,#, John W Baddley1,2, Shuo Yang1, ... VARA visits; all other data used for the analysis were from the administrative claims data To test the performance of the effectiveness algorithm and to see whether it was similar for non-biologic ... to thank Mike Connor and Sheryl Berryman at the Birmingham VA Medical Center for their assistance in working with the DSS data This work was supported by the Agency for Research and Quality (U18...