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But a new study by the consultancy firm Deloitte has founs that people in Boston are statistically less willinvg to use this new alternative healthbcare option. The percentage of patients who were likeluy to use a retail clinic if it cost half as much as a doctodr visit was 30percen nationwide, but only 21 percent in Boston. The percentage of patientz that have actually used a retail walk in clinidc in the past year was 13 percent nationwide and only 5 percent in Boston. Even a one week wait for a doctort would not entice very many Bostonians to go to aretaiol clinic: just 18 percent of Bostonians said that woulc make them change their behavior, compared with 28 percentr nationwide.
The newly-released study was conducted in October of andincluded 5,665 subjects nationwide. Chip Phillips, the presidentf of division, said the studhy does ot fully reflect the preferencese of patients in the He saidthe company's clinic in Medway has administered more than 9,60o0 flu shots and handledf nearly 28,000 acute care visitss since opening in September. “Initial acceptance of the retail clinic model in Massachusettz has been higher than the vast majority of our market Phillips said.