Table 4.

 Linear regression analyses with global rating of care as the dependent variable, demographic characteristics as independent variables entered in step1 and experiences on the 10 least important items as independent variables entered in step 2

CQI	Model	Age	Sex	Self‐observed health	Education	Degrees of freedom	R 2¶
Breast cancer	dc†‡, experiences§	0.11*	–	0.26*	−0.01	13, 353	0.118*
Hip/knee surgery	dc, experiences	0.03	−0.03	0.17*	−0.11*	14, 1685	0.232*
Cataract surgery	dc, experiences	0.06*	−0.02	0.10*	−0.02*	14, 4634	0.229*
Rheumatoid arthritis	dc, experiences	0.13*	−0.01	0.12*	−0.04	14, 406	0.068*

*P < 0.05.

^†Demographic characteristics.

^‡Age: from 1 (18–24 years) to 7 (older than 75); Sex: 0 = male, 1 = female; self‐observed health: from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent); education: from 1 (no education) to 8 (university degree or higher).

^§Experiences on 10 least important items.

^¶Adjusted R ², represents proportion of variance accounted for.