Table 2.

Patient and Clinician Predictors of Difficulty

Patient predictors
Characteristic	Difficult	Not difficult	P
Symptom severity	6.3	5.4	0.002
Number of Symptoms	5.5	3.7	<0.005
Functional status	20.6	23.1	<0.005
Mental disorder	28%	15%	<0.0005
Multi-somatoform disorder	21%	11%	0.02
Pre-visit serious illness worry	21%	13%	0.005
Clinician predictors
Characteristic	Difficult	Not difficult	P
Physician Belief Scale (PBS)	77.2	67.7	0.005
Years MD	9.2	12.3	0.0002