{"id":1053076,"date":"2011-04-03T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/average-time-patients-spend-waiting-to-see-a-health-care-provider-is-22-minutes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:58","slug":"average-time-patients-spend-waiting-to-see-a-health-care-provider-is-22-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/average-time-patients-spend-waiting-to-see-a-health-care-provider-is-22-minutes.php","title":{"rendered":"Average time patients spend waiting to see a health-care provider is 22 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_LY7APi0bufs\/SXFDHrotv1I\/AAAAAAAADTg\/Jq_g36NjLeg\/s1600-h\/Clock-2-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/dbeee_Clock-2-small.jpg\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>The average time patients spend waiting to see a health-care provider is 22 minutes. Orthopedists have the longest waits, at 29 minutes; dermatologists the shortest, at 20.<\/p><p>Patient satisfaction dropped significantly with each 5 minutes of waiting time. Even the term \"waiting room\" has a bad connotation. Many offices prefer \"reception area\" instead.<\/p><p>\"I live my life in seven-minute intervals,\" says Laurie Green, a obstetrician-gynecologist in San Francisco who delivers 400 to 500 babies a year and says she needs to bring in $70 every 15 minutes just to meet her office overhead.<\/p><p>Measures the health-care industry is trying to minimize waiting time include:<\/p><p>- \"Open-access\" scheduling<br>- Minimize office visits<br>- Advance preparation<br>- Huddling up: \"Mr. Jones is in a 15-minute slot, but we know he's a 45-minute guy\"<br>- Teamwork<br>- Cutting \"cycle time\"<br>- Keep patients informed<br>- Survey patients<\/p><p>References:<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304410504575560081847852618.html?mod=rss_Health\">The Doctor Will See You Eventually<\/a>. WSJ.<\/div><div> Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.<div><\/div><\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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Orthopedists have the longest waits, at 29 minutes; dermatologists the shortest, at 20.Patient satisfaction dropped significantly with each 5 minutes of waiting time. Even the term &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/average-time-patients-spend-waiting-to-see-a-health-care-provider-is-22-minutes.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}