The association of rheumatologist supply and multidisciplinary care with timely patient access to rheumatologists: Evidence from British Columbia, Canada.
Norma K BilnDaphne GuhNick BansbackKam ShojaniaMark HarrisonPublished in: Arthritis care & research (2023)
Access to rheumatology care improved and the increased proportion of IA patients in the first-visits case-mix indicates that rheumatologist supply and incentives for multidisciplinary care may have improved referral patterns. However, time to DMARDs for people with RA remained long, and we found signals of unequal access for females and people living outside of metropolitan areas.
Keyphrases
- quality improvement
- healthcare
- palliative care
- end stage renal disease
- pain management
- ejection fraction
- rheumatoid arthritis
- primary care
- newly diagnosed
- affordable care act
- case report
- prognostic factors
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- disease activity
- ankylosing spondylitis
- human immunodeficiency virus
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- men who have sex with men
- hiv infected
- systemic sclerosis