Hello id19,
1) What is the average wait time for patients visiting their doctor?
15 to 19 minutes
?The average patient waits 19 minutes for a scheduled appointment,
according to the American Medical Association, but that can seem like
an eternity when your medical condition and the time lost out of your
day are dominating your thoughts. Here are a few ways to play the
waiting game.?
http://www.psoriasis.org/treatment/yourdoctor/help_yourself.php
The Medical Group Management Association says the average patient wait
time is 15 minutes.
Baltimore Business Journal
http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2006/08/07/focus1.html
2) What is the average amount of time a doctor spends with their patient per visit?
15 to 20 minutes
According to Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome
Research Institute, the average length of a doctor's visit is 20 minutes.
?The average doctor's visit is 20 minutes, which is too short to
interview a patient, record three generations of medical history,
assess disease risks and chart courses of action, said geneticist
Francis S. Collins.?
WTHN: November 2004
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=2536450
A typical patient-physician encounter takes 15- or 20-minutes
Source:
JAOA ? Vol 105 ? No 1 ? January 2005 ? 13-18
CLINICAL PRACTICE
Patient-Physician Communication: Why and How
http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/content/full/105/1/13
?? the amount of time patients spend with their doctors on each visit
has been declining with the total length of visits shrinking from
about 25 minutes to about 19 minutes.
Harris Interactive Study
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/healthnews/HI_HealthCareNews-V1-Issue1.pdf
Each new patient visit lasted nearly 50 minutes while return visits
lasted about 18 minutes.
http://www.rheumatology.org/practice/benchmarking/execsummary.asp
3) What percentage of patients want to spend more time with their
doctor during a visit?
From a Harris Interactive study conducted for ARiA Marketing and iMcKesson.
Most Frustrating Health Care Experiences
29% - ?not having enough time with my doctor.?
Harris Interactive Study
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/healthnews/HI_HealthCareNews-V1-Issue1.pdf
Time
?Patients want to spend more time with their doctor: they want time to
be able to explain things and have things explained to them. We all
know that there is a shortage of doctors, and we know that a doctor's
time is valuable. However, if one wish could be granted for patients
it would be for more time with their doctor.?
Source:
BMJ. 2003 June 14; 326(7402): 1294.
What patients want from their doctors
Mike Stone, director, Patients Association, Harrow
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1126182
4) What is the average amount of time a patient is allowed to speak
before their physician interrupts them?
?? Physicians typically wait only 23 seconds after a patient begins
describing his chief complain before interrupting and redirecting the
discussion. Such premature redirection can lead to late-arising
concerns and missed opportunities to gather important data?
Source:
JAOA ? Vol 105 ? No 1 ? January 2005 ? 13-18
CLINICAL PRACTICE
Patient-Physician Communication: Why and How
http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/content/full/105/1/13
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I hope the information provided is helpful!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
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