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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Expect. 2011 Jun 14;16(1):105–112. doi: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00705.x

Table 2.

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

Patient Satisfaction
Covariates Coefficient SE P-value
Characteristics of providers at hospital level
 Avoidance attitude −0.74 0.15 < .01
 Age −0.19 0.29 .51
 Gender (Male) −4.14 1.60 .01
 Year of education −0.48 0.39 .22
 Months in medical field 0.029 0.024 .22
Characteristics of individual patients
 Age −0.00040 0.0083 .96
 Gender (Male) 0.090 0.22 .68
 Year of education −0.090 0.030 < .01
 Patient income (≥2000) 0.23 0.23 .33