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You are here: Home / Articles / 5 Ways to Improve Your Collaboration with Orthopedic Surgeons

5 Ways to Improve Your Collaboration with Orthopedic Surgeons

August 17, 2018 • By Vanessa Caceres

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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.

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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.

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Filed Under: Patient Perspective, Practice Management Tagged With: collaboration, communication, interdisciplinaryIssue: August 2018

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