ArticleBMJ open2024
Great expectations? GPs' estimations of time required to deliver BMJ's '10 minute consultations'.
Article in BMJ open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- [Recommendations of the DGIIN and DGINA on the structure and staffing of integrated emergency centres].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2026Review
- Is 10 minutes sufficient? Follow-up consultation in Ecuadorian Social Security health systems.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Transforming dementia care pathway: why shifting to a universal, comprehensive, proactive, local, and integrated model is imperative to improve outcomes.Frontiers in dementia · 2025Article
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9 authors.
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Abstract
objectivesTo estimate the time required to undertake consultations according to BMJ's 10-minute consultation articles.To quantify the tasks recommended in 10-minute consultation articles.To determine if, and to what extent, the time required and the number of tasks recommended have increased over the past 22 years.
designAnalysis of estimations made by four general practitioners (GPs) of the time required to undertake tasks recommended in
settingPrimary care in the UK.
participantsFour doctors with a combined total of 79 years of experience in the UK National Health Service following qualification as GPs.
main outcome measuresMedian minimum estimated consultation length (the estimated time required to complete tasks recommended for all patients) and median maximum estimated consultation length (the estimated time required to complete tasks recommended for all patients
resultsData were extracted for 44 articles. The median minimum and median maximum estimated consultation durations were 15.7 minutes (IQR 12.6-20.9) and 28.4 minutes (IQR 22.4-33.8), respectively. A median of 17 tasks were included in each article. There was no change in durations required over the 22 years examined.
conclusionsThe approximate times estimated by GPs to deliver care according to
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