Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Study: 'Minute clinics' fail to catch on in Mass. - St. Louis Business Journal:

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But a new study by the consultancyh firm Deloitte has found that peopl in Boston are statistically less willing to use this new alternativ healthcare option. The percentage of patientd who were likely to use a retaikl clinic if it cost half as much as a doctor visit was 30percent nationwide, but only 21 percenr in Boston. The percentage of patients that have actuallty used a retail walk in clinic in the past year was 13 percenft nationwide and only 5 percentin Boston. Even a one week wait for a doctodr would not entice very many Bostonians to go to aretailo clinic: just 18 percent of Bostonians said that woulc make them change theirf behavior, compared with 28 percent nationwide.
The newly-releaseed study was conducted in Octobedrof 2008, and included 5,665 subjectes nationwide

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