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Table 3.
Intercorrelations among Patient Demographic Variables and Interruption Patterns (n=30)
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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
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1. Patient age
--
.00
.05
.03
.21
.08
-.25
.02
.06
-.04
.20
2. Patient education
--
.42*
.14
.38*
.08
.35*
.12
.04
.20
.07
3. Patient health status
--
.51** -.04
.00
-.39*
-.07
.13
.37*
.36*
4. Number of visits
--
-.15
-.18
-.29
-.14
.25
.23
.13
5. Length of visit
--
-.19
-.09
-.08
.00
.21
-.08
6. Physician cooperative interruption
--
.19
.23
.25
.01
.31*
7. Physician intrusive interruption
--
-.05
.09
-.24
-.18
8. Physician unsuccessful interruption
--
-.14
.01
-.15
9. Patient cooperative interruption
--
.21
.25
10. Patient intrusive interruption
--
.54**
11. Patient unsuccessful interruption
--
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* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (1-tailed).
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (1-tailed).