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. 2007 Jan 10;7:2. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-2

Table 2.

Median frequency (quartiles) of verbal behaviour

Guidelines n = 10 Implicit n = 11 Explicit n = 8
Doctors
Information-giving 31 (27–39) 40 (37–57) 42 (31–47)
Information-seeking 6 (5–10) 3 (3–5) 7 (6–9)
Social talk 1 (0–1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0–1)
Positive talk 5 (3–9) 6 (2–10) 8 (6–9)
Negative talk 1 (0–1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0–1)
Partnership building 3 (3–4) 3 (1–5) 3 (2–5)
Registering other 18 (12–23) 9 (6–20) 20 (13–25)
Pause 6 (3–7) 4 (1–6) 1 (0–4)
Patients
Information-giving 17 (12–21) 16 (7–21) 14 (12–21)
Information-seeking 3 (1–5) 3 (2–3) 5 (2–9)
Social talk 1 (0–2) 0 (0–1) 0 (0–2)
Positive talk 12 (11–15) 7 (5–18) 12 (10–13)
Negative talk 2 (0–3) 0 (0–1) 1 (1–2)
Partnership building 0 (0–1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0–1)
Registering other 15 (6–23) 8 (2–18) 11 (7–25)
Pause 1 (1–4) 1 (0–1) 0 (0–1)

Footnote: Items in bold indicate statistically significant differences across the arms of the trial using Kruskal Wallis tests. Doctors'behaviour: Information seeking χ2 = 11.2, df 2, P < 0.004 and Pauses χ2 = 6.1, df 2, P < 0.04. Patients' behaviour: negative talk χ2 = 8.7, df 2, P < 0.01.