Has the time come to adopt consultation time as a new technology for "the basket"? A literature review of the relations between consultation duration and consultation quality in primary care

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Volumn 147, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1016-1020

  Landau, Yael ^a   Vinker, Shlomo ^a,b   Shani, Michal ^a,b   Nakar, Sasson ^a,b  

^a CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consultation duration; Consultation quality; Family physician; Patient satisfaction; Primary care

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REVIEW; TIME;

FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63149147363     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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