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Effect of a Referral‐Only Policy on Wait Time for Outpatient Pediatric Dermatology Appointments
Author(s) -
Herd Tiffany J.,
Nopper Amy J.,
Horii Kimberly A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pediatric dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1525-1470
pISSN - 0736-8046
DOI - 10.1111/pde.13100
Subject(s) - medicine , referral , dermatology , patient referral , outpatient clinic , family medicine , pediatrics
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.