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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2012 Sep 27;44(3):343–348. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2012.08.017

Table 2.

Waiting Time and Phone Access for 192 Clinics* in Analysis

Waiting time
from contact
to appt.
(baseline)**
Waiting time
from contact to
appt. (months
12-15)**
Number of callbacks
required to schedule
appt. (months 16-
24)***
Mean 7.26 5.81 0.47
Std Dev. 7.03 6.26 0.59
Minimum 0.00 0.00 0.00
1st quartile 2.25 1.50 0.11
Median 5.00 3.25 0.33
3rd quartile 10.25 7.88 0.67
Maximum 38.00 31.67 3.44
*

Of the 201 clinics enrolled in the study, 4 were excluded for missing data and 5 were excluded because they worked exclusively with criminal justice or prison populations, making the patient profile and phone access process inappropriate.

**

Waiting time is expressed in days, aggregated to the clinic level.

***

Callbacks are aggregated to the clinic level.