The Effect of Patient Arrival Time on Overall Wait Time and Utilization of Physician and Examination Room Resources in the Outpatient Urology Clinic

Table 1

Demographic characteristic of outpatient urology clinic patient population.

Total outpatient appointments	306
Total outpatient nonprocedure patients	226
Number of clinics	19
Mean no. of patients per clinic	15.9±5.0
Mean no. of new patients clinic	4.1±1.7
Mean no. of return patients per clinic	7.7±3.3
Mean time in clinic per patient (minute)	34.1±16.2
Mean time with MD per patient (minute)	9.0±6.0