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. 2011 May 18;11:71. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-71

Table 3.

Comparison of physician and patient satisfaction ratings in the intervention group with the Wilcoxon signed-rank test

patients physicians
Item mean (sd) mean (sd) mean (sd) of differences median of differences Wilcoxon-test (Z)

1 1.13 (.14) 1.49 (.39) 0.34 (0.70) 0 -4.56 (p < .001)
2 1.15 (.18) 1.57 (.46) 0.42 (0.77) 0 -4.83 (p < .001)
3 1.09 (.12) 1.46 (.43) 0.37 (0.65) 0 -4.71 (p < .001)
4 1.15 (.20) 1.56 (.43) 0.40 (0.82) 0 -4.21 (p < .001)
5 1.24 (.25) 1.66 (.45) 0.40 (1.00) 0 -4.37 (p < .001)
6 1.12 (.13) 1.59 (.42) 0.46 (0.85) 0 -5.25 (p < .001)

We applied Bonferroni correction for multiple testing (α = .05/6 = .008). Item means and standard deviations and means, standard deviations, and medians of the differences are listed. The scale ranges from 1 (totally agree) to 5 (totally disagree).