{"id":2459,"date":"2017-03-21T18:10:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inboundmd.com\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2017-03-21T18:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T22:10:52","slug":"new-poll-15-minutes-long-wait-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inboundmd.com\/new-poll-15-minutes-long-wait-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"[New Poll] 15 Minutes Too Long to Wait for Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that patients don&#8217;t like it when their doctor or healthcare provider makes them wait.<\/p>\n<p>But how long is too long for a patient to wait past their scheduled appointment time?<\/p>\n<p>We took to Twitter to find out. And the Twittersphere didn&#8217;t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Over 2,300 patients answered our poll, &#8220;How long is too long to wait at the #Doctors office before you&#8217;re seen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And they said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Poll ? How long is too long to wait at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Doctors?src=hash\">#Doctors<\/a> office before you&#8217;re seen?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 InboundMD (@InboundMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InboundMD\/status\/839146666833891329\">March 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>15+ minutes? <\/p>\n<p>That right 60% of all patients who took the survey (1,410) stated a wait longer than 15 minutes is too long.<\/p>\n<p>While not uncommon for some practices, after that long, it&#8217;s easy to see how any patient would be upset. It&#8217;s certainly a lot more forgiving that we anticipated (after the horror stories we&#8217;ve heard from patients about practice wait times).<\/p>\n<p>The 15 minute mark is a bit misleading. One in three survey respondents find a wait longer than five minutes to be too long.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, 9 out of 10 patients don&#8217;t want to wait more than 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to the importance of time management!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that patients don&#8217;t like it when their doctor or healthcare provider makes them wait. But how long is too long for a patient to wait past their scheduled appointment time? 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