Table 2.

—Health Outcomes: Number and Percentage of Subjects Reporting the Best Outcomes Stratified by Length of the Patient-Clinician Relationship

	Clinician Relationship
Health Outcomes	< 2 y	2-5 y	> 5 y
Quality of care from clinician: “Best I could imagine”	30 (37.0)	67 (45.9)	51 (55.4)
Confidence in dealing with breathing problems: “All of the time”	27 (30.0)	45 (30.6)	24 (24.7)
General self-rated health: “Very good” or “Excellent”	14 (15.6)	27 (17.9)	9 (9.3)

Data are presented as No. (%). Percentages are of nonmissing subjects reporting best scores in each clinician-relationship column.