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W7D1 Suppose you are interested in the behaviors of physicians that have high ra

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Question

W7D1 Suppose you are interested in the behaviors of physicians that have high ratings of patient satisfaction. The research goal is to identify the behaviors in the natural clinical settings of these successful physicians so that these behaviors can be built into the curricula of medical preparation programs. The main data were collected by the video recording of five randomly selected physician-patient encounters from 10 physicians who have been rated highly by patients in a reliable satisfaction survey.

In analyzing the recordings, what would you define as the unit for analysis? Why? How many data units (in rough estimates) are you likely to get based on this decision? Does the estimated number of data units seem adequate? Why or why not?

Explanation / Answer

The unit for for analysis is the patients feedback about satisfaction. The units are satisfaction is the dependent variable when the independent variables are doctors strength, doctors visibile timings, doctors fee and doctors behaviour etc..

These estimates are used the measure the satisfaction level of patients about the doctor.