The Vasculitis Foundation has awarded a two-year grant to Assistant Professor Carolyn Thorpe, PhD, MPH, for her study, Impact of Healthcare Utilization and Informal Caregiver for Primary Systemic Vasculitis: A National Perspective.
In this study, Thorpe and her team will use national administrative data from Medicare as well as the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project to characterize variations in healthcare utilization, medication use, costs, and mortality by individuals who have a form of primary systemic vasculitis. They will also survey patients and their family and friends to describe the nature and impact of informal caregiving for systemic vasculitis and identify predictors of greater burden. Co-investigators include PittPharmacy Associate Professor Joshua Thorpe and colleagues from the University of North Carolina Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine.
Carolyn T. Thorpe, PhD, MPH is an assistant professor in the pharmacy and therapeutics department at the School of Pharmacy.
