Rural-Urban Differences in Durations of Patient-Physician Visit Time

Tannista Banerjee and Arnab Nayak (nayak_a@mercer.edu)
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Arnab Nayak: Mercer University

Economics Bulletin, 2017, vol. 37, issue 2, 1191-1209

Abstract: This paper compares the outpatient visit duration in urban and rural physician offices. Results show that the length of time a physician spends with a patient is strongly associated with urban-rural physician office setting, which directly affects practice quality. Results also show that the rural physicians order more medications for patients across all age groups. Physicians put less attention to patients when they spend less time for consultation.

Keywords: Urban; Rural; Primary care physicians; Patient; Office visit duration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-06-05
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