Patient’s Assessment of the Adequacy of Their Primary Care Visit as a Function of Valuing Continuity of Care and Seeing Their Regular Physician
| Value of Continuity | Main Effects | Interaction | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment of Visit | Low | Medium | High | Value of Continuity | Regular Doctor | Value of Continuity with Regular Doctor |
| Note: For the above comparisons, the 6 cell sizes for each comparison ranged from 32–1,167. | ||||||
| Expectations met | ||||||
| Regular doctor | 4.08 | 4.37 | 4.63 | <.001 | <.001 | .06 |
| Not regular doctor | 3.86 | 4.19 | 4.14 | |||
| Things I wanted to bring up but could not | ||||||
| Regular doctor | 2.05 | 1.75 | 1.42 | <.001 | .48 | .36 |
| Not regular doctor | 1.95 | 1.98 | 1.55 | |||
| Doctor addressed my main concern | ||||||
| Regular doctor | 4.34 | 4.67 | 4.87 | <.001 | .006 | .32 |
| Not regular doctor | 4.29 | 4.50 | 4.65 | |||
| Satisfaction with physician | ||||||
| Regular doctor | 4.11 | 4.36 | 4.66 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Not regular doctor | 3.96 | 4.10 | 4.04 | |||
| Physician’s accumulated knowledge of the patient | ||||||
| Regular doctor | 3.10 | 3.48 | 3.93 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Not regular doctor | 2.31 | 2.35 | 2.35 | |||
| Coordination of care | ||||||
| Regular doctor | 3.30 | 3.78 | 4.32 | <.001 | <.001 | .004 |
| Not regular doctor | 2.92 | 3.01 | 3.30 | |||
| Interpersonal communication | ||||||
| Regular doctor | 3.95 | 4.31 | 4.63 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
| Not regular doctor | 3.67 | 3.76 | 3.79 | |||