Abstracts tagged "Access to care and inflammatory arthritis"

Abstract Number: 2309 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Novel Approach to Assess Wait-Times to Rheumatologists
Jessica Widdifield¹, Claire Bombardier², J. Carter Thorne³, R. Liisa Jaakkimainen⁴, J. Michael Paterson¹, Sasha Bernatsky⁵, Jacqueline Young¹, Laura Wing¹, Noah Ivers⁶, Debra Butt¹, Vivian Poon¹, Vandana Ahluwalia⁷ and Karen Tu¹, ¹Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ³Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁴Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Divisions of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷William Osler Health Center, Brampton, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Previous studies quantifying delays in assessment of patients by rheumatologists have studied patients from rheumatology clinics and thus include all patients who ultimately had…

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