Changes in the Length of Office Visits
Published in: The New England Journal of Medicine, v. 344, no. 19, Correspondence, May 2001, p. 1476-1477
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2001
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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