7,4 timmar till prevention

Am J Public Health. 2003 Apr;93(4):635-41.

Primary care: is there enough time for prevention?
Yarnall KS, Pollak KI, Østbye T, Krause KM, Michener JL.

Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center,
Durham, NC 27710, USA. yarna001@mc.duke.edu

Abstract
OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine the amount of time required for a primary
care physician to provide recommended preventive services to an average
patient panel. METHODS: We used published and estimated times per service to
determine the physician time required to provide all services recommended by
the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), at the recommended
frequency, to a patient panel of 2500 with an age and sex distribution
similar to that of the US population. RESULTS: To fully satisfy the USPSTF
recommendations, 1773 hours of a physician’s annual time, or 7.4 hours per
working day, is needed for the provision of preventive services.
CONCLUSIONS: Time constraints limit the ability of physicians to comply with
preventive services recommendations

/Peter Olsson, Jokkmokk