ABSTRACT
In March 2021, the pilot project “Vaccination in practices” started in 42 selected family practices in Baden-Württemberg. The 6-week project aimed to rapidly implement the COVID-19 vaccination in primary care. The practices were able to document the time spent per patient and vaccination in minutes, as well as the daily time spent on patient-independent vaccination tasks, using time recording tables. Five of the 42 practices with inhomogeneous practice characteristics provided data. Based on this limiting database, a first vaccination took an average of 29 minutes, almost twice as long as a second vaccination, which took an average of 15 minutes. In each case, the duration of the follow-up surveillance of 15 minutes must be added to this. In particular, appointment scheduling, pre-vaccination consultation, and documentation took additional time beyond the actual vaccination. An average of 189 minutes per vaccination day was required for the patient-independent organization of the COVID-19 vaccination.