1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, New York 14642
The issues raised by Dr. Stein and Dr. Weinberger are quite important and, in fact, prompted the determination of correlation coefficients for the actual number of well-baby visits made and the maternal competence, satisfaction, and compliance scores between and within settings by provider groups and, overall, between settings. These were all less than .25 as reported in the text of the article.
It must be remembered that the visit figures presented in Table XIV to which both writers refer are means for the entire sample.