Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many patients do not receive guideline-recommended preventive, chronic disease, and acute care. One potential explanation is insufficient time for primary care providers (PCPs) to provide care.

Objective

To quantify the time needed to provide 2020 preventive care, chronic disease care, and acute care for a nationally representative adult patient panel by a PCP alone, and by a PCP as part of a team-based care model.

Design

Simulation study applying preventive and chronic disease care guidelines to hypothetical patient panels.

Participants

Hypothetical panels of 2500 patients, representative of the adult US population based on the 2017-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Main measures

The mean time required for a PCP to provid

SUBMITTER: Porter J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9848034 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature