Clinical encounter | Time per case per year (minutes) | Patients needing services annually | Time to treat the population per year (minutes) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Physiciana | Nurse | Physician | Nurses | ||
First visit-clinical exam | 5 | 0 | 865 | 4325 | 0 |
First visit-risk profiling | 4 | 0 | 815 | 3264 | 0 |
Management for risk < 10% | 0 | 5 | 566 | 0 | 2832 |
Management for risk 10–20% with high blood pressure | 10 | 10 | 60 | 600 | 600 |
Management for risk 10–20% with high cholesterol | 10 | 10 | 60 | 600 | 600 |
Management for risk 20–30% | 10 | 10 | 52 | 520 | 520 |
Management for risk > 30% | 20 | 20 | 77 | 1540 | 1540 |
Management of diabetic patients | 20 | 20 | 29 | 580 | 580 |
Annual incremental time (minutes) | 11,429 | 6675 | |||
(hours) | 190 | 111 | |||
Annual incremental time (workdays)b | 28.5 | 16.7 |