Decreasing wait time for pediatric dermatology appointments is important to patients. We retrospectively examined the effect of a referral-only policy on patient wait time for an initial appointment in an academic pediatric dermatology clinic and found a statistically significant decrease in wait time after the policy was instituted.
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