Article: Secondary Patients 'Seen' in 6% of Office Visits.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Article: Care of the Secondary Patient in Family Practice.
Journal of Family Practice;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... reported providing care to secondary patients during 6% of their office visits. This care involved ... practice patterns; office visits; family; physicians ... services provided to secondary patients during visits to family ...

Article: Study Finds Doctors' Office Visits Getting Longer
The Washington Post;  January 21, 2001 ;     672 words ... ... with their patients. If anything, office visits may be getting longer. The study ... staffs, looked at more than 200,000 office visits over 10 years. The average length ... patients accounted for a growing share of office visits during the period, climbing from 15 ...

Article: Doctors spend more time with patients, study says; Managed care: ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  January 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... with their patients. If anything, office visits may be getting longer. The study ... staffs, looked at more than 200,000 office visits over 10 years. The average length ... patients accounted for a growing share of office visits during the period, climbing from 15 ...

Article: Are longer office visits reality?
Dermatology Times;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... suggests, that time allowance for patient office visits has lengthened over past decade? Dermatologists ... year. The results showed that patient office visits had lengthened between one and two ... much time they spend - on average in office visits, whether the length of time they ...

Article: BLUE CROSS PROBES BILLS FOR LENGTHY OFFICE VISITS ...
The Boston Globe;  April 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... conducted more lengthy - and expensive - office visits than appeared necessary. The doctors ... patients during 40- to 80-minute office visits and consultations that cost $38 and ... rejecting the bills for complicated office visits without even determining whether the ...

Article: DOCTORS' OFFICE VISITS ARE LONGER.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  January 18, 2001 ;     478 words ... ... with their patients. If anything, office visits may be getting longer. The study ... staffs, looked at more than 200,000 office visits over 10 years. The average length ... patients accounted for a growing share of office visits during the period, climbing from 15 ...

Article: Fibromyalgia diagnosis does not lead to uptick in office ...
Family Practice News;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... not followed by a surge in physician office visits, according to Dr. Ernest H.S ... investigators found that the rates of office visits, prescriptions, and medical tests ... to diagnosis, patients averaged 25 office visits and received 11 prescriptions, compared ...