New research finds hiring more specialists alone won't fix long wait times, and may make them worse. Harvard, NYU, and NEJM researchers draw on traffic engineering to explain why more physicians per capita is linked to longer waits
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New analysis finds hiring more specialists alone won't fix long wait times, and may make them worse
A new analysis published in NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery finds that the standard response to growing specialist wait times, hiring more physicians, is unlikely to solve the problem on its own, and may even worsen it.