Abstracts tagged "Access to care and quality measures"

Abstract Number: 1031 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Quantifying the Delays to Rheumatologist Consultation and Treatment Among Patients with Systemic Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
Jessica Widdifield¹, Sasha Bernatsky², J Carter Thorne³, Claire Bombardier⁴, R. Liisa Jaakkimainen⁵, Vandana Ahluwalia⁶, J. Michael Paterson⁷, Noah Ivers⁴, Debra Butt⁸ and Karen Tu⁸, ¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Rheum/Clin. Epid., McGill MUHC/RVH, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵Preventive Med and Biostatisti, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Past President, Ontario Rheumatology Association, Brampton, ON, Canada, ⁷ICES, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: Optimal care for systemic inflammatory rheumatic diseases often hinges upon early referral from primary care physicians (PCP) to rheumatologists. Our aim was to quantify…

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