Moreover, general practitioners (GPs) and family physicians play an important role in primary health-care services and health promotion.[ 3 4 5 6 ] A number of studies highlighted that the length of consultations has influenced by characteristics of the physicians and patients and reasons of the consultations.[ 4 5 6 ] In general, the size of practice lists, apart from extremely large or extremely small, may not be significant indicators for measuring consultation time.[ 7 ] Furthermore, doctors allocate more time for patients who have new problems than those with already defined problems.[ 4 6 8 ] Usually, physicians × workload and performance are a matter of debate since consultations on psychosomatic and mental diseas
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