Abstracts tagged "Workforce and nurse practitioners"

Abstract Number: 2085 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016

Minding the Gap:  the Use of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in U.S. Rheumatology Practice to Affect Rheumatology Workforce Shortages

Benjamin J Smith¹, Marcy B. Bolster², Marcia Ditmyer³, Karla B. Jones⁴, Seetha Monrad⁵ and Daniel Battafarano⁶, ¹Rheumatology, McIntosh Clinic, P.C., Thomasville, GA, ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ³University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, ⁴Rheumatology, Nationwide Children's, Columbus, OH, ⁵Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁶Medicine, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, TX