Providing Rheum with a View

Providing care for the population of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in the United States is problematic and likely to become even more so over the next decade. Approximately a third of hospital discharges and 20% of office visits include a musculoskeletal diagnosis. These are common disorders, common yet with enormous heterogeneity and varied complexity. The breadth of rheumatic disease and related symptoms of patients wandering into an internist ’s office is staggering. Rheumatic diseases do not afford physicians the common courtesy of targeting a single organ.

Source: Medical Clinics of North America - January 13, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Brian F. Mandell Tags: Preface Source Type: research