Open AccessExploring the lengthiest ambulatory breast surgery clinic appointments: is the patient the problem?
Author(s) -
Daniel J. Kagedan,
Kazuaki Takabe
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gland surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2227-8575
pISSN - 2227-684X
DOI - 10.21037/gs-20-623
Subject(s) - medicine , ambulatory , quartile , breast cancer , pediatrics , cohort , retrospective cohort study , comorbidity , family medicine , emergency medicine , cancer , confidence interval
Prolonged outpatient clinic appointments can disrupt schedules, impacting patients and providers. We sought to define features of the longest ambulatory appointments in a breast surgery clinic, and to ascertain whether patients attending these appointments consistently have protracted appointments.
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