Abstracts tagged "access to care and health disparities"

Abstract Number: 987 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Improving Access To Subspecialty Care For Underserved Communities: A Rheumatology Patient Navigator Pilot Intervention
Candace H. Feldman¹, Gregory A. Culley², Erika Brown³, Chanele R. Assencoa², LeRoi S. Hicks⁴ and Daniel H. Solomon^3,5, ¹Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Family Health Center of Worcester, Inc., Worcester, MA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Division of Hospital Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, ⁵Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Early and sustained access to rheumatology care can improve access to disease-modifying medications and reduce disparities in outcomes. In one state, more than one-half…