Medical Economics September 29, 2022
Primary care physicians get 24 hours a day — but would need at least 26.7 to provide guideline-based care to their patients.
The findings were part of “Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care,” a study published July 1 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Authors Justin Porter, M.D.; Cynthia Boyd, M.D., M.P.H.; M. Reza Skandari, Ph.D.; and Neda Laiteerapong, M.D., M.S., used 2020 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to create model patient panels of 2,500 patients.
Based on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines, they calculated how much time physicians would need each day to handle preventive care, chronic disease care, acute care, and documentation and inbox management. The authors estimated...
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