Patients’ Satisfaction With and Anxiety After the Consultation
| Group | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measure | Total Sample (N=498) | Immediate Test Ordering (n=229) | Watchful Waiting (n=95) | Watchful Waiting+QI (n=174) |
| QI=quality improvement. | ||||
| a On a scale of 0 to 10, where a higher score indicates greater satisfaction or greater anxiety. | ||||
| Satisfaction, mean (SD) scorea | 7.3 (2.0) | 7.4 (2.1) | 7.4 (1.9) | 7.1 (2.1) |
| Anxiety, mean (SD) scorea | 3.1 (2.5) | 3.1 (2.5) | 3.4 (2.7) | 2.8 (2.4) |