Patient Campaigning: Identification of patients who are due for various SLE-specific testing or management activities and proactive contact in order to prompt an office visit. Results We demonstrated a "tighter" management of SLE patients through statistically significant improvement in the rate of key SLE management behaviours (95% CI). "Tighter" management, in turn, prompted statistically significant improvement in hospitalisation (85% CI). Conclusions Time-structured, IT-enhanced, and QI

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... catordriven interventional modalities prompted a more frequent, more comprehensive, and guideline-adherent point of care interaction with SLE patients (i.e. "tighter" management). "Tighter" management manifested as improved patient outcomes in the form of a diminished rate of hospitalisation among SLE patients. Abstract 447 Table 1 Abstract 447 Table 2