Meeting the challenge of the ageing of the population: Issues in access to specialist care for arthritis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 599-609

  Badley, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Davis, Aileen M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access to care; Arthritis; Health personnel; Health service accessibility; Health services needs and demands; Orthopaedics; Rheumatology

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FUNDING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NONARTICULAR RHEUMATISM; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETIREMENT; RHEUMATOLOGY; SCREENING; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 84870511566     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: 15321770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2012.09.002     Document Type: Review

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