Rheumatology Workforce Solutions: Primary Care Resources, Referral Triage Tactics, and Smarter Screening Strategies

Moderator(s)

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  Beth Jonas, MD

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose
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  Steven Taylor, MD, RhMSUS

  University of Colorado
  Denver, CO, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.

Session Coordinator(s)

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  Rebecca Sadun, MD, PhD

  Duke University
  Durham, NC, United States

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This session aims to share strategies for delivering rheumatology care in the face of a significant shortage of rheumatologists. Solutions include: (1) better equipping primary care doctors to initiate the work up for common rheumatic diseases and provide initial management while patients await consultation appointments with rheumatologists – enter the ACR’s rheumforprimarycare.org resource; (2) improve referral quality and processes through triage and E-consult services to alleviate the burden caused by misdirected referrals so that critical patients can be seen sooner; and (3) providing rheumatology patients with self-management strategies that can alleviate the burden of low-yield patient contact between visits while simultaneously ensuring patients do reach out quickly and effectively when input from their rheumatologist is crucial.

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Central Time

  Keeping It Real: Strategies for Improving Referral Triage and Utilization of E-Consults
  

  Speaker: Jayanth Doss, MD, MPH – Duke University
• 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Central Time

  Keeping It Real: Strategies for Improving Referral Triage and Utilization of E-Consults
  

  Speaker: Pankti Reid, MD, MPH – University of Chicago Medical Center
• 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Central Time

  Wearables, PROs, Savvy Self-Care, and Other Smart Strategies for Determining When Our Patients Need Us