Fig. 3
a Correlation between the Empathy Components Questionnaire
score and the 30-day readmission rate of the 15 physicians whose data
were evaluable (all DRGs included); each grey triangle represents one
doctor and the dotted line is the linear correlation; the correlation is
adjusted for the following characteristics of each doctor: mean age of
his patients, sex of his patients, average relative weight of his cases,
age of the doctor himself; the correlation is weighted by the number of
ordinary discharge procedures performed by each doctor; ECQ = Empathy
Components Questionnaire
b Correlation between the Jefferson Scale of Empathy score and
the 30-day readmission rate of the 15 physicians whose data were
evaluable (all DRGs included); each black dot represents one doctor and
the solid line is the linear correlation; the correlation is adjusted
for the following characteristics of each doctor: mean age of his
patients, sex of his patients, average relative weight of his cases, age
of the doctor himself; the correlation is weighted by the number of
ordinary discharge procedures performed by each doctor; JSE = Jefferson
Scale of Empathy