Immediate access rheumatology clinic: Efficiency and outcomes

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 363-368

  Gärtner, Miriam ^a   Fabrizii, Julia P ^a   Koban, Elisabeth ^a   Holbik, Martin ^b   Machold, Lorenz P ^a   Smolen, Josef S ^a   Machold, Klaus P ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; GLUCOCORTICOID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SYMPTOM; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84857231751     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-200315     Document Type: Article

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