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