Changes in the Length of Office Visits

Steven C. Marcus, Mark Olfson, Harold Alan Pincus

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2001Published in: The New England Journal of Medicine, v. 344, no. 19, Correspondence, May 2001, p. 1476-1477

Letter to the Editor commenting on how pediatricians spend their time with patients during office visits compared to physicians. Pediatricians espouse emphasizing the quality, not the quantity, of parents' time with children. The author suggests that should be the case for physicians' time with patients.

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  • Copyright: Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2001
  • Pages: 2
  • Document Number: EP-200105-19

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