There are a few reasons why incentivizing clinicians to spend more time with patients can improve health outcomes. Doing so affords clinicians time to assess social determinants' influences on their patients' health experiences; offers opportunities to identify and respond to patients' loneliness; and helps motivate patients' trust in health care, strengthen patient-clinician relationships, and bolster patients' adherence to clinicians' recommendations.
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