Matthias Dreher, Torsten Witte, Kirsten Hoeper, Gunter Assmann, Fabian Proft, Denis Poddubnyy, Niels Murawski, Konstantinos Triantafyllias, Marlon Grodd, Erika Graf, Urs A Fichtner, Harald Binder, Jan Zeidler, Juliana Rachel Hoeper, Johanna Callhoff, Kirsten Karberg, Anna Trautwein, Dativa Tibyampansha, Leszek Wojnowski, Reinhold E Schmidt, Andreas Schwarting
OBJECTIVES: Early diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis is critical to prevent joint damage and functional incapacities. However, the discrepancy between recommendations of early diagnosis and reality is remarkable. The Rheuma-VOR study aimed to improve the time to diagnosis of patients with early arthritis by coordinating cooperation between primary care physicians, specialists and patients in Germany. METHODS: This prospective non-randomised multicentre study involved 2340 primary care physicians, 72 rheumatologists, 4 university hospitals and 4 rheumatology centres in 4 German Federal States...
October 27, 2023: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases