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Rheumatoid Arthritis Surveillance in Ontario: Monitoring the Burden, Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes through Linkage of Administrative Health Data
- Source :
- Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.). 18(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common chronic inflammatory joint disease. Using the Ontario administrative health data housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, researchers have quantified the population-level burden and epidemiology of RA, mapped its geographic distribution in relation to rheumatologist supply, studied trends in access to rheumatology care and treatment and evaluated patient outcomes. The findings highlight the excess morbidity and mortality associated with the growing burden of RA in the face of a strained rheumatology supply, and raise urgent questions about how best to meet the needs of Ontarians with RA.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
MEDLINE
Arthritis
Information Storage and Retrieval
Health Services Accessibility
Health data
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Young Adult
Cost of Illness
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
Young adult
Aged
Quality of Health Care
Aged, 80 and over
Ontario
business.industry
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Rheumatology
Geographic distribution
Treatment Outcome
Rheumatoid arthritis
Family medicine
Population Surveillance
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17102774
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Healthcare quarterly (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e6643c8a91b4ccbbb501afde21a62b79