TABLE 2.

Model results for physician time spent, controlling for individual physicians. ^a

Variable	B	β	T	p
Language preference other than English	0.105	0.219	3.265	0.001
Sex	−0.010	−0.024	−0.0367	0.714
Age 26–45 years	−0.024	−0.055	−0.647	0.519
Age 46–65 years	0.037	0.078	0.911	0.363
Age ≥ 66 years	0.017	0.029	0.284	0.777
Disposition = admitted	0.030	0.050	0.663	0.508
Emergency severity index (ESI) = 3	−0.022	−0.051	−0.548	0.584
ESI = 4	−0.134	−0.288	−2.896	0.004
ESI = 5	−0.134	−0.106	−1.483	0.140
Payor type = Medicaid	−0.015	−0.035	−0.309	0.758
Commercial	0.008	0.017	0.161	0.872
None/self‐pay	0.006	0.007	0.086	0.931

^a Overall model performance: R ² = 0.33, F(22,184) = 4.15, p = <0.001.