Letter to the Editor Regarding “Factors Affecting Outpatient Consultation Length among Specialists in Tabriz, Iran”

Abstract

We read the paper written by Hajizadeh et al. (1) published in Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics in 2019 and aimed to study the factors affecting outpatient consultation length among specialists in Tabriz City, Iran. Although this was a valuable investigation and its findings were very interesting, some issues should be considered. Our main concern is that the authors did not compare consultation lengthsbetween similar studies conducted in Iran. It seems that comparing consultation lengths conducted in a similar context is valuable and has a great impact on managers, policy-makers, and users’ decision-making.

Keywords

• consultation length
• physician-patient relations
• physicians
• outpatients.