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Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 Oct 6;20(1):7–14. doi: 10.1245/s10434-012-2582-1

TABLE 3.

Impact of patient and surgeon factors on surgeon-level variation in patient-reported outcomes

	A: Total variation (%)			B: Surgeon variation (%)			C: % between-surgeon variation explained^a
	AC	CC	Dsat	AC	CC	Dsat	AC	CC	Dsat
Surgeon only				5.4	3.3	7.5
Patient clinical factors and demographics	2.4	1.3	11.5	5.0	2.7	2.0	–	–	–
Surgeon demographics	2.6	1.7	11.7	4.7	2.1	1.3	6.7	24.3	35.0
Surgeon practice factors	3.3	2.0	12.9	3.8	2.5	1.2	23.9	43.4	40.0

AC access to care, CC care coordination, Dsat decision satisfaction

Surgeon effect calculated after controlling for patient-level factors