When divided into tasks, their workday would look more or less like this: 14.1 hours a day for preventive care, 7.2 hours for patients with chronic diseases, 2.2 hours a day for patients with emergency cases, and 3.2 hours a day for document management.
"There is a huge gap between the care we have been trained for and the limits of a clinic workday," says Justin Porter, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and the co-author of the paper. "We have an ever-increasing set of guidelines, but clinic slots have not increased proportionately."
Primary care physicians need… 26.7 hours a day to do their work
Monday, September 5, 2022
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