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Primary Care: A Mandatory Requirement For Effective Health Care, Waris Qidwai
Primary Care: A Mandatory Requirement For Effective Health Care, Waris Qidwai
Department of Family Medicine
No abstract provided.
The Increasing Number Of Clinical Items Addressed During The Time Of Adult Primary Care Visits, Elmer D. Abbo, Qi Zhang, Martin Zelder, Elbert S. Huang
The Increasing Number Of Clinical Items Addressed During The Time Of Adult Primary Care Visits, Elmer D. Abbo, Qi Zhang, Martin Zelder, Elbert S. Huang
Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications
BACKGROUND: Primary care physicians report that there is insufficient time to meet patients' needs during clinical visits, but visit time has increased over the past decade.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the number of clinical items addressed during the primary care visit has increased, and if so, whether this has been associated with changes in visit length and the pace of clinical work.
DESIGN: Analysis of non-hospital-based adult primary care visits from 1997 to 2005, as reported in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.
PARTICIPANTS: A total of 46,431 adult primary care visits.
MEASUREMENTS: We assessed changes over time for …