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Ethics Forum: Electronic Health Records Raise Concerns about Physician-Patient Relationship
Health information technology may distract physicians during exam room visits with patients
Is Shared Decision Making Possible in Rheumatology?
A rheumatologist voices skepticism that physicians, patients can arrive at mutually shared healthcare decisions
Speak Out Rheum: Are Independent Measures of Patient Satisfaction Reliable?
Patient survey questionnaires, metrics to gauge physician performance may not be trustworthy indicators of quality of patient care
RheumPACER Dashboard System Aims for Quick Organization of Patient Data
The system synthesizes information from several sources that are usually scattered, and presents physicians with an easy-to-access guide to a patient with up-to-the-minute information.
Rheum with a View
Why I sometimes read poetry instead of medicine—and why you should, too
Empower Rheumatology Patients
Patient empowerment and education are important parts of rheumatology care.
Pain Perspective in Scleroderma
Systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) is a disease in which inflammatory and fibrotic changes result in overproduction and accumulation of collagen and other extracellular matrix proteins, resulting in intimal vascular damage, fibrosis, and occasionally organ dysfunction affecting the gastrointestinal, lung, heart, and renal systems. There are two classifications of SSc—limited cutaneous or CREST (calcinosis, Raynaud’s, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangectasias) syndrome, where skin thickening occurs mainly in the distal extremities and facial/neck areas and internal organ involvement, if present, occurs later in the disease process; and diffuse cutaneous disease where there is a more rapid progression of skin thickening from distal to proximal and organ involvement can be severe and occur early in the disease. As noted by various authors, there is no “crystal ball” into which one can look to see the outcome of the disease, and involvement varies significantly from one person to the next.
A New Breed of Practice
As small practice physicians are forced to combat increasing overhead and shriveling reimbursement, we seem to be entering an era of medical practice Darwinism—survival of those that are most fit to operate in today’s severe and unforgiving healthcare environment.
Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and Patient Safety
Quality adds new dimension to the three-part mission
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