Table 2.

Linear random‐effect regression model for predicting patients’ satisfaction from hospital‐averaged providers’ avoidance attitude, controlling for patient and provider socio‐demographics

Covariates	Patient satisfaction
	Coefficient	SE	P‐value
Characteristics of providers at hospital level
Avoidance attitude	−0.74	0.15	<0.01
Age	−0.19	0.29	0.51
Gender (Male)	−4.14	1.60	0.01
Year of education	−0.48	0.39	0.22
Months in medical field	0.029	0.024	0.22
Characteristics of individual patients
Age	−0.00040	0.0083	0.96
Gender (Male)	0.090	0.22	0.68
Year of education	−0.090	0.030	<0.01
Patient income (≥2000)	0.23	0.23	0.33