Consultants' workload in outpatient clinics

Consultation time, workload, and problems for audit in outpatient clinics.

Fifty four of 74 paediatricians in the West Midlands (43 general medical, 11 subspecialist) replied to a postal questionnaire about their outpatient practice: 37 timed each consultation in one clinic. On average, subspecialty consultations lasted 37 minutes for new patients and 29 minutes for review. In general clinics new patient consultations took 23 minutes, review 12. Mean 'single handed' g...

Outpatient clinics for adults with congenital heart disease: increasing workload and evolving patterns of referral.

OBJECTIVE To examine the evolving role of specialised outpatient services for adult patients with congenital heart disease. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of all patients attending the Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults over three corresponding three month periods in 1987, 1992, and 1997. SETTING A tertiary referral centre. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Patient demographics, residence,...

Workload in genitourinary medicine clinics in England.

Work loads in venereal disease--sexually transmitted disease (STD)--genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics have risen greatly in recent years. The increase in viral infections which are more difficult and time consuming to manage than those caused by bacteria and the higher expectations and demands of patients have combined to increase workloads more than the case figures indicate. This prompted ...

E-Health at Outpatient Clinics in Uganda

Predicting Intermittent Atrial Fibrillation in Outpatient Clinics

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Palpitations are the most common complaint in cardiology outpatient clinics. These palpitations may be derived from paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) and can be easily overlooked. It is unclear whether inter-atrial conduction time (ICT) may predict the paroxysmal AF in out-patients that present with palpitations. We evaluated the ability of the ICT to predict paroxys...