5 Ways to Improve Your Collaboration with Orthopedic Surgeons

5 Things Orthopedic Surgeons Want Rheumatologists to Do

1. Meet them.
2. Know when a referral is needed.
3. Refer early.
4. Think broadly.
5. Pick up the phone.

Review the guideline

Read the 2017 ACR/American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Guideline for the Perioperative Management of Antirheumatic Medication in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases Undergoing Elective Total Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty.