GH Stummvoll, MD, RD Fritsch, MD, B Meyer, E Hoefler, M Aringer, MD, JS Smolen, MD, and G Steiner, PhD Division of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Second Department of Medicine, Hietzing Hospital, Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rheu...

1 Department of Radiology, Institute of Rheumatology, Warsaw, Poland 2 Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Second Faculty, Warsaw Medical University, Poland 3 Early Arthritis Clinic, Institute of Rheumatology, Warsaw, Poland 4 Department of Diagnostic Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland 5 Department of Pathophysiology, Immunology, and Pathological Anatomy,...

Purpose The approximately 250 board certified Pediatric Rheumatologists in the United States are unable to see all of the children in need of specialized rheumatologic care. Consequently, many pediatric patients receive this care from practitioners trained in internal medicine and/or adult rheumatology. With only 10-20 fellows graduating from pediatric rheumatology training programs each year, ...

Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Research Center for Rheumatic Disease, NHO Kumamoto Saishunsou National Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan Rheumatic and Collagen Disease Center, Sasebo Chuo Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan Oribe Rheumachika-Naika Clinic, Oita, Japan Institute of Rheumatology, Zenjinkai Shimin-no-Mori Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of I...

BACKGROUND Recommendations for rheumatology nursing management of chronic inflammatory arthritis (CIA) from European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) states that nurses should take part in the monitoring patients' disease and therapy in order to achieve cost savings. The aim of the study was to compare the costs of rheumatology care between a nurse-led rheumatology clinic (NLC), based on perso...