Table 3.

Hazard Ratios of Visit-Level Determinants of Patient Talk, Physician Talk, and Visit Duration

	Patient Talk		Physician Talk		Visit Length
	HR	%	HR	%	HR	%
Topic
Personal habit topic (%)†	1.00		1.00		1.00
Psychosocial issues topic (%)†	0.98**	0.8	1.00		0.99
Patient–MD relationship topic (%)†	1.01		0.98		1.00
Other issues topic (%)†	1.01*	−0.7	1.01		1.02
Mental health topic (%)†	0.99**	0.7	1.00		1.00
Patient initiated topic (%)	0.99**	0.4	1.00		1.00
Physician showed uncertainty (%)	0.99*	0.3	1.00		1.00
Patient showed uncertainty (%)	1.00		1.00		1.00
Patient showed mood problem nonverbally (%)	1.00		1.00		1.00
Site
Managed care group practice (MCG)‡	2.47**	−36.8	1.70*	−22.7	2.89**	−32.5
Inner city fee-for-service solo practices (ICS)‡	6.58**	−61.6	2.51		3.24**	−35.4
Patient and physician
Age in years	0.98		0.90		0.97**	1.0
Female patient§	0.95		0.74*	16.1	0.91
Having college or more years of education	0.90		0.90		0.85
SF36: physical role functioning	1.01*	−0.6	1.01**	−0.4	1.01**	−0.3
SF36: bodily pain	0.99		0.97**	1.3	0.98**	0.8
SF36: social role functioning	1.00		1.00		1.00
Female physician§	0.87		1.04		0.74
Years patient seen this MD	1.02**	−1	1.01		1.01
s	1.97**		2.05		2.69**
Number of observations	366		366		366

^*p-value<.05

^**p-value<.01.

^†Biomedical topics make up the comparison group.

^‡Academic medical center is the comparison site.

^§Male is the comparison group.