Table 2 Analysis of Waiting time for appointment, Waiting time for report and Overall difficulty as function of different explanatory variables. Wilcoxon Two-Sample Test/Kruskal–Wallis test, N = 557

Gender:

0.4698

0.0577

0.5071

Male

228

3 (2,4)

222

2 (1,3)

233

2 (1,3)

Female

304

3 (2,4)

295

2 (2,3)

315

2 (1,3)

HMO:

0.7055

0.337

0.9647

1

245

3 (2,4)

233

2 (1,3)

250

2 (1,3)

2

160

3 (2,4)

155

2 (2,3)

166

2 (1,3)

3

75

3 (2,4)

78

2 (2,3)

78

2 (1,3)

4

54

3 (2,4)

53

2 (2,3)

56

2 (1,3)

Region:

0.1439

0.1697

0.4613

Haifa and North

157

3 (2,4)

151

2 (1,3)

160

2 (1,3)

Central area

271

3 (2,4)

266

2 (1,3)

281

2 (1,3)

Jerusalem area

57

3 (2,4)

55

3 (2,3)

58

3 (2,3)

Beer-sheva and South

56

3 (2,4)

54

2 (2,3)

58

3 (2,3)

Religion:

0.097

0.7936

0.1247

Jewish

499

3 (2,4)

487

2 (1,3)

514

2 (1,3)

Other

41

2 (2,3)

39

2 (2,3)

42

2 (1,3)

MRI shift:

0.4282

*0.0157

0.1393

Morning

145

3 (2,4)

143

2 (1,3)

151

2 (1,3)

Afternoon

138

3 (2,4)

134

2 (2,3)

141

3 (2,3)

Evening

121

3 (2,4)

118

2 (2,3)

124

2 (1,3)

Night

137

3 (2,4)

131

2 (2,3)

141

3 (1,3)

MRI organ:

0.2329

0.1149

0.4396

Abdomen/pelvis

86

3 (2,4)

86

2 (2,3)

89

3 (1,3)

Neurological

267

3 (2,4)

258

2 (2,3)

276

2 (1,3)

Breast

27

3 (1,5)

27

2 (1,3)

27

2 (1,3)

Skeleton

116

3 (1,4)

112

2 (1,3)

119

3 (1,3)