Table 3.

Physician Perceptions of Time Use for Non-English-Speaking Patients

Response Categories	All Physicians(n = 21)*	Residents(n = 8)	Attending Physicians(n = 13)
Perceived spending “a little more” or “much more” time during visit, %	85.7†	100.0†	76.9
Perceived needing “a little more” or “much more” time to addressimportant issues, %	90.4†	87.5‡	92.3†
Perceived accomplishing “much less” or “a little less” during visit, %	52.4	62.5	46.2

^*Physicians completed a questionnaire asking them, based on their clinic experience, to compare their perceived time use with non-English-speaking patients to English-speaking patients using a 5-point Likert scale, with the following responses: “much less,”“a little less,”“about the same,”“a little more,” and “much more.” Responses were received from all 8 resident physicians and 11 of 13 attending physicians.

^†p < .01 by the single sample proportion test, with 0.5 as the expected proportion.

^‡p < .05.