Table 3.

Waiting times for rheumatology consultation in 4 models of care.

Model of Care	Waiting Times for 2013				Waiting Times for 2014				Waiting Times for 2015
Model of Care	N	Median, Days	90th Percentile, Days	Percent Meeting Benchmark of ≤ 4 Weeks	N	Median, Days	90th Percentile, Days	Percent Meeting Benchmark of ≤ 4 Weeks	N	Median, Days	90th Percentile, Days	% Meeting Benchmark of ≤ 4 Weeks
RHU	N/A¹	N/A¹	N/A¹	N/A¹	60	143	201	8	72	75	137	11
TAP	31	37	68	29	29	34	85	31	25	21	57	64
EAC²	N/A¹	N/A¹	N/A¹	N/A¹	25	38	59	36	80	45	83	25
SASP and UAACP³	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	16	30	178	44

↵1 Only 1 site had conducted its model of care during 2013.
↵2 The EAC did not have complete data for 2014 (only half a year available).
↵3 The indigenous models of care (SASP and UAACP) had high rates of self-referral (36%), leading to many excluded cases (including all for the year 2011). Additionally, because of small cell sizes (< 5) in 3 out of 4 available years of data, only the overall waiting times between the years 2012 and 2015 are reported. EAC: Early Arthritis Clinic at the William Osler Health System in Brampton, Ontario; RHU: Rheumatic Health Unit at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital, St. John’s, Newfoundland; SASP: Siksika Arthritis Screening Project on the Siksika Reserve, Alberta; TAP: The Arthritis Program at the Southlake Regional Hospital in Newmarket, Ontario; UAACP: Urban Aboriginal Arthritis Care Program in Calgary, Alberta; N/A: not applicable.