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Clinician Call to Action

Terry Hartnett  |  

Use teamwork, screening, and scheduling to improve efficiency—and patient care

Physical Intimacy, Sex, and Rheumatic Disease

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Sexuality is like the crazy auntie in every family. Everyone knows she’s part of the family, and she’s there at all the gatherings, but no one wants to talk about her, or to her,” says Amye Leong, MBA, of a subject she’s very passionate about: sexual experience and the rheumatology patient. Leong is the speaker for the April 17 ARHP audioconference.

ACR State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium

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Join the ACR in Chicago April 13–15 for the 2007 State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium. The symposium will start with a focus on lupus with presentations on pathophysiology, trial metrics, and a review of recently completed clinical trials. Saturday afternoon will include an update on several diseases including Sjögren’s syndrome, fibromyalgia, pediatric vasculitis, and myositis. Following RA presentations Sunday morning, the symposium will conclude with the always-popular “Year in Review” presentation.

AMA and ACR Physician Practice Information Survey

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The American Medical Association (AMA), with the support of the ACR and more than 60 other medical specialty societies, will begin conducting a multispecialty survey of America’s physician practices this year.

Twenty Questions, Part 2

David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD  |  

Outcomes measures can standardize care—but they can’t standardize patients

Professional Partners

Jill Landis, MD  |  

Rheumatologists and nurse practitioners team up to improve workflow and patient care

What Has the ACR Done for You Lately?

Dan Fohrman, MD  |  

The world in which we currently practice is not the same one we knew five to 10 years ago. Insurers second-guess our decisions and create numerous hurdles for us to overcome before our patients can be treated. Government agencies are seeking ways to reduce healthcare expenditures and improve what they perceive as a lack of quality and consistency in healthcare delivery. These groups, as well as Congress and employers (who purchase benefits for their employees), have begun a concerted effort to grade rheumatologists on the basis of what they perceive to be quality and efficiency and then pay us according to those criteria.