Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care - Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care - Journal of General Internal Medicine
Most doctor’s offices are open an average of thirty to forty hours a week, and host practices of approximately 2,500 patients.22 On the basis of recommendations from national clinical care guidelines for preventive services and chronic disease management, sufficiently addressing the needs of this size practice would require 21.7 working hours per d
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