Abstracts tagged "primary care and rheumatic disease"

Abstract Number: 2511 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Primary Care Management of Patients with Rheumatic Diseases Prior to Rheumatologist Consultation
Jessica Widdifield¹, J Carter Thorne², Karen Tu³, Debra Butt³, Noah Ivers⁴, Claire Bombardier⁴, R. Liisa Jaakkimainen⁵, Vandana Ahluwalia⁶, J. Michael Paterson⁷ and Sasha Bernatsky⁸, ¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ³Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, 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, ⁸Rheum/Clin. Epid., McGill MUHC/RVH, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Primary care physicians (PCP) often play a central role in the early detection and referral for patients with rheumatic diseases. Our aim was to…