Communication in Oncology Outpatient Clinic Settings: Congruence of Quality of Life Assessment between Patient-Physician and Patient-Caregiver Dyads

Figure 2

Relationship among symptom, burden level, age, and congruence of patient-physician functioning evaluation according to three education levels: the surfaces in the 3D regression plots depict perfect congruence in functioning evaluation (patient-physician difference = 0) according to three education levels: (a) low, (b) middle, and (c) high; the circles and crosses demonstrate real data situated above and under the surface, respectively. The space above the surface means overestimation and the space under the surface represents underestimation. Category boundary for symptoms is 0–900 and 0–14 for burden.

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