ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 3017 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
J. Haxby Abbott1, Helen Harcombe2, Chris Crane3, Liam Hutton3, Kirsten Stout3, Cathy Chapple4 and David Gwynne-Jones5, 1Centre for Musculoskeletal Outcomes Research, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2Centre for Musculoskeletal Outcomes Research, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 3Dunedin Hospital, Southern District Health Board, Dunedin, New Zealand, 4School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 5Orthopaedic Surgery, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Background/Purpose: In socialized healthcare systems with free public access to healthcare, there are circumstances wherein patients referred by general medical practitioners (GPs) for specialist physician…