PULSE POLL: Physician attention

Each month, the Truven Health Analytics PULSE® Healthcare Survey polls approximately 3,000 Americans to gauge attitudes and opinions on a wide range of healthcare issues. This independent, multi-modal (land line, cell phone, Internet) survey collects information from 80,000 randomly selected US households. The results depicted here represent responses from 3,003 survey participants interviewed from Nov. 3 – 15, 2017, and 3,007 participants interviewed from Oct. 1 – 13, 2013. The margin of error in both polls is +/- 1.8 percentage points. Truven Health is part of the IBM Watson Health™ business.This Truven Health Analytics PULSE® Healthcare Survey asked Americans about their experiences with primary care physicians. Respondents were asked identical questions to a study conducted in 2013, providing a comparison. Some of the topics covered include scheduling, device usagee, and time spent with patient. 

The full results can be viewed below.