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The pediatric walk-in clinic: competition for the private practitioner

W. Feldman and C. Cullum
CMAJ April 15, 1984 130 (8) 1003-1005;
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Abstract

In an affluent city with many pediatricians a 20% increase in patients seen in a hospital-based walk-in clinic in 1982 prompted a study to determine the characteristics of clinic users and their reasons for using the clinic. It was found that users of the clinic were middle-class, that they had a higher employment rate than the average for the region, and that in 54% of the families both parents worked outside the home. The children of 85% of the families were patients of pediatricians in private practice; most of the others were patients of a family physician in private practice. Most of the children seen at the clinic had had symptoms for more than 24 hours, but few parents had attempted to contact their own physicians. In the previous 12 months 95% of the children had been seen at the clinic, 43% in the month preceding the study. They came to the clinic for two main reasons: the broad range of services offered --laboratory, radiology and pharmacy as well as medical--and the convenient hours, with 71% coming outside of their physicians' office hours. Given the reality of social trends pediatricians will either have to share their patients with facilities that offer services outside of regular office hours or devise another system for the treatment of their patients.

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