The PROGNOSI Data Set: Physicians’ Utterances about Prognosis
The PROGNOSI data set contains information about patient visits to 125 physicians (Christakis and Levinson 1998). The variables are:
| LENGTHPX | Number of utterances about prognosis |
| PTAGE | Patient’s age |
| PTSEX | Patient’s sex (1=male; 0=female) |
| EZCOMPT | Doctor’s rating of how easy it was to communicate with the patient; values range from 1 to 5 |
| MDLIKEPT | Doctor’s rating of how much he or she liked the patient; values range from 1 to 5 |
| SURGEON | 1=doctor was a surgeon; 0=otherwise |
| CLAIMS | Number of malpractice claims filed against the doctor |
| MINUTES | Length of the visit in minutes |
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