Table 3.

The Direct, Indirect, and Total Association of a Physician’s Clinical Full-Time Equivalent with the Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction with Physician Score, 2010

	Direct association	Indirect association			Total association
		Continuity of care received	Continuity of care provided	Access to care
Coeff	−0.080	0.017	0.016	−0.006	−0.053
p value	0.03	0.36	<0.01	0.11	0.03

These estimates are based on the results in Table 2. The total association is the sum of the direct and the indirect associations