PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bastiaan  van Dijk
AU  - Annette van der Helm-van Mil
TI  - Delayed Referral of Female Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Where Are We Now? A Study Spanning 3 Decades
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.220429
DP  - 2022 Sep 15
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - jrheum.220429
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2022/09/11/jrheum.220429.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2022/09/11/jrheum.220429.full
AB  - In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), timely initiation of treatment with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs is associated with better outcomes.1,2 In many countries, the swiftness of treatment initiation depends highly on timely referral to the rheumatologist by the general practitioner (GP).3