JointHealth™ express July 21, 2017
Worried about osteoarthritis? The Osteoarthritis (OA) Tool can help!
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Arthritis Alliance of Canada (AAC), and the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) have joined forces to develop the Osteoarthritis (OA) Tool to help family physicians and other health care providers understand that osteoarthritis is a common, treatable, chronic illness by providing a tool that helps providers:
Worried about osteoarthritis? The Osteoarthritis (OA) Tool can help!
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Arthritis Alliance of Canada (AAC), and the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) have joined forces to develop the Osteoarthritis (OA) Tool to help family physicians and other health care providers understand that osteoarthritis is a common, treatable, chronic illness by providing a tool that helps providers:
- Identify, assess, and monitor OA
- Equip patients for high quality self-management
- Recommend specific non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies
- Posting to Twitter using the hashtag #OATool
- Promoting this initiative in your professional networks, such as LinkedIn, using the hashtag #OATool
- Writing to us at feedback@jointhealth.org to share your impressions of the tool
Arthritis Consumer Experts
ACE thanks Arthritis Research Canada (ARC) for its scientific review of ACE and JointHealth™ information and education programs.