Study: 'Minute clinics' slow to catch on in Mass. - Baltimore Business Journal:

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But a new study by the consultancy firm Deloitte has founcd that people in Boston are statisticalluy less willing to use this new alternative health care The percentage of patients who were likelu to use a retail clinic if it cost half as much as a doctort visit was 30percent nationwide, but only 21 percenyt in Boston. The percentage of patients that have actually used a retai walk in clinic in the past year was 13 perceng nationwide and only 5 percenrin Boston. Even a one week wait for a doctofr would not entice very many Bostonians to go to aretaiol clinic: just 18 percent of Bostonians said that wouled make them change their behavior, compared with 28 percentg nationwide.
The newly-released study was conducted in October of andincluded 5,665 subjects nationwide. Chip the president of division, said the study does ot fully reflecf the preferences of patients inthe state. He said the company'zs clinic in Medway has administered morethan 9,60 0 flu shots and handled nearly 28,00o0 acute care visits since opening in September. “Initial acceptance of the retailp clinic model in Massachusettds has been higher than the vast majoritty of ourmarket launches,” Phillips