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Effect of a Referral‐Only Policy on Wait Time for Outpatient Pediatric Dermatology Appointments

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Decreasing wait time for pediatric dermatology appointments is important to patients. We retrospectively examined the effect of a referral‐only policy on patient wait time for an initial appointment in an… Click to show full abstract

Decreasing wait time for pediatric dermatology appointments is important to patients. We retrospectively examined the effect of a referral‐only policy on patient wait time for an initial appointment in an academic pediatric dermatology clinic and found a statistically significant decrease in wait time after the policy was instituted.

Keywords: pediatric dermatology; policy; dermatology; wait time

Journal Title: Pediatric Dermatology
Year Published: 2017

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