Quality Assurance/Improvement

Is It Time to Replace the HAQ?

Kathy Holliman | July 12, 2011

The PROMIS initiative uses item response theory to improve assessment of patient-reported health and wellbeing

Practice Page

Staff | July 12, 2011

ZPIC Medicare Audits: What’s in Store for Physicians?

Pearls for Medical Record Standards

Staff | June 13, 2011

A medical record contains documentation of a patient’s medical history and care. These records include a patient’s entire history with personal and confidential information. Every medical record should have accurate and precise documentation to support diagnoses, justify treatment, and make sure that there is a connection for continuous care among healthcare providers.

RX for Practice Overload?

Gretchen Henkel | June 13, 2011

Rheumatology physician assistants are becoming a more common and important resource for busy practices

Why Do We Wait to Help Patients?

Heather Haley, MS | June 13, 2011

Treatment gaps in Medicare patients highlight the need for creative solutions

Practice Page

Staff | May 16, 2011

Incident-To: What Are The Guidelines?

Medical Societies Ask, What’s in a Name?

Kurt Ullman | May 16, 2011

ICD-11, history, and confusion a catalyst for replacing eponyms with descriptions in disease nomenclature

Ethics Forum

Michele Meltzer, MD, MBE, C. Ronald MacKenzie, MD, and Elizabeth A. Kitsis, MD, MBE | May 16, 2011

What’s your ongoing obligation to care for patients who can’t pay?

What Makes a “Best Doctor” Best?

Christina Picciano | February 12, 2011

Rankings’ publishers tout their approaches, but many rheumatologists are blasé about making the list

Rheumatologist=Pain Doctor?

David G. Borenstein, MD | February 12, 2011

Managing pain is an important part of rheumatologic care—and a focus for the ACR