Quality of communication questionnaire (QOC) association with healthcare communication items, general satisfaction with care and comfort discussing dying
| Spearman correlations with QOC score (p-value) | |
| Communication items | |
| How would you rate your treatment discussions that you have had with your physician?# | 0.68 (0.0001) |
| Rate your doctor's overall communication# | 0.67 (0.0001) |
| Satisfaction with care | |
| How skilled and knowledgeable is your physician?¶ | 0.24 (0.01) |
| How would your rate the overall care you have received from your doctor?# | 0.52 (0.0001) |
| Comfort discussing death | |
| How comfortable is your doctor about talking about dying?# | 0.71 (0.0001) |
#: 1–10 with 0=very worst and 10=very best
¶: 1=not at all, 2=somewhat, 3=quite, 4=very, 5=extremely