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Table 3 Clinic characteristics

From: The effect of a mystery shopper scheme on prescribing behavior in primary care: Results from a field experiment

 

Control

  

Treatment

  

MWW

Variables

Mean

Sd.

N

Mean

Sd.

N

p-value

Audit 1

# of additional physicians in the office

0.333

0.808

48

0.354

0.758

48

0.792

# of additional patients in physician’s office

0.979

1.436

48

0.938

1.359

48

0.865

# of additional patients in the waiting room

0.250

0.636

48

0.375

0.672

48

0.182

Audit 2

# of additional physicians in the office

0.617

1.054

47

0.447

0.880

47

0.451

# of additional patients in physician’s office

1.191

1.313

47

1.511

1.932

47

0.653

# of additional patients in the waiting room

0.234

0.560

47

0.213

0.508

47

0.826