Table 3.

Rank order correlations for measures of patient centeredness.^*

Patient Centeredness Variables	Coefficient	P-value
Percent patient expressive	0.21	0.026
Percent psychosocial topic	0.24	0.0004
Ratio of patient to physician utterances **	0.29	0.0038
Ratio of patient to physician questions	0.44	<0.0001
Percent patient “control” utterances	0.34	0.0003

^*GEE parameter estimates for rank order correlation of measures of patient-centeredness with total number of utterances. (GEE adjusts for correlation within patients, each of whom had 2 visits.)

^**Verbal dominance ratio)