ANALYSIS OF ONE THOUSAND CONSECUTIVE RESIDENCE VISITS TO ACUTELY ILL MEDICAL PATIENTS

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Abstract
Although residence visits may occupy a large share of a physician's working day, statistical knowledge concerning these visits is largely a matter of conjecture and hearsay. This study was inspired by a great variation in opinion among the older practitioners in our community regarding their impression of residence visits. We felt that by analyzing 1,000 consecutive residence visits some useful, and to a large extent unknown, statistical information could be obtained. In order to make such a study, its basic unit—the residence visit—had first to be defined and then that definition rigidly followed. All patients 13 and under were automatically excluded. As far as was possible over the phone, complaints belonging to specialties other than internal medicine were referred to other practitioners, and only the remainder were then seen. Only the initial visit to any patient with a medical complaint or to the same patient for a medical complaint unrelated
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