Table 7.

Analysis of the comparative frequency of patient and nurse practitioner use of patient-centred interactions and biomedical interactions in the different interaction phases of the video-recorded consultations

	Patient-centred style interactions			Biomedical style interactions
Consultation interaction phases	Patient frequency of use [median (quartiles)]	Nurse practitioner frequency of use [median (quartiles)]	P-value*	Patient frequency of use [median (quartiles)]	Nurse practitioner frequency of use [median (quartiles)]	P-value*
Opening	3.0 (3.0, 4.0)	4.0 (3.0, 5.0)	0.441	0.0 (0.0, 0.0)	0.0 (0.0, 1.0)	0.323
History	9.0 (6.0, 18.0)	20.5 (13.0, 25.0)	< 0.001	19.0 (14.0, 26.0)	9.5 (6.0, 16.0)	<0.001
Exam	4.5 (3.0, 10.0)	4.0 (1.0, 9.0)	0.628	2.0 (0.0, 6.0)	8.5 (0.0, 13.0)	0.001
Counsel	25.0 (16.0, 33.0)	16.0 (9.0, 23.0)	0.001	7.0 (4.0, 12.0)	22.0 (17.0, 35.0)	<0.001
Closing	5.5 (4.0, 10.0)	4.0 (3.0, 7.0)	0.067	0.0 (0.0, 0.0)	0.0 (0.0, 0.0)	0.161

*P-value from Wilcoxon’s signed-rank Z test.