Authors' response

[摘要] We apologise for any lack of clarity in our implication that the extra minute, on average, taken to elicit patients' concerns was statistically significant. For reasons that we described, the study did not recruit sufficient patients to provide clear answers to all our questions. Even so, the regression analysis showed that the extra time contributed almost as much as elicitation to the already small effect on satisfaction with professional care. We then conflated these observations into the claim that elicitation takes time — for which we have, admittedly, only suggestive results.

[学科分类] 卫生学