A new marker of primary care utilization - annual accumulated duration of time of visits

Abstract Background Most of the research on primary care workload has focused on the number of visits or the average duration of visits to a primary care physician (PCP) and their effect on the quality of medical care. However, the accumulated annual visit duration has yet to be examined. This measu...

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Main Authors: Talya A. Nathan, Arnon D. Cohen, Shlomo Vinker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13584-017-0159-y