Cost-Effectiveness of a New Outpatient Pulmonology Care Model Based on Physician-to-Physician Electronic Consultation

Table 2

Annual time (in minutes and hours) spent on e-consultations and first face-to-face visits in the pre and postintervention years and estimated time for the first postintervention year. Average number of weekly consultations (e-consultations, face-to-face visits, and the sum of both) necessary to attend that number of consultations (44 week/year).

Actual time spent on e-consultations and first face-to-face visits.
Year	e-consultations (x15′)	Time minutes (hours)	e-consultations/week (44 week/year)	FtoF visit (x20′)	Time minutes (hours)	FtoF visists/week (44 week/year)	Total minutes (hours)	e-consultations + FtoF/week (44 week/year)
2019	466	6,990′ (116.5 hours)	11	6,589	131,780′ (2,196.3 hours)	150	138,770′ (2,312.8 hours)	161
2021	3,934	59,010′ (983.5 hours)	90	2,223 (56.5%)	44,460′ (741 hours)	51	103,470′ (1,724.5 hours)	141
Estimates for 2021
2021	6,908	103,620′ (1,727 hours)	157	4,145 (60%)^∏	82,900′ (1,382 hours)	94	186,520′ (3,109 hours)	251

FtoF, face to face; , percentage with respect to the number of e-consultations for that year; ^∏, estimated percentage that should be addressed with respect to the number of e-consultations.