Table 3 Association between physicians’ characteristics and agreement that advance care planning should be promoted
Agree that advance care planning be promoted | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bivariate analysis | Multivariable logistic regression analysis | |||
Yes (n = 970) n (%) | No/Not sure (n = 290) n (%) | p | OR [95%CI] | |
Gender | 0.007 | |||
Male | 803 (75.6) | 259 (24.4) | 0.54 [0.35–0.84] | |
Years of practice | 0.009 | |||
1–15 | 132 (86.3) | 21 (13.7) | 1.00 (ref) | |
16–30 | 361 (77.1) | 107 (22.9) | 0.66 [0.39–1.12] | |
≥ 31 | 477 (74.7) | 162 (25.4) | 0.68 [0.40–1.14] | |
Specialty | ||||
Internal medicine | 467 (80.9) | 110 (19.1) | 0.002 | 1.80 [1.21–2.69] |
General medicine | 64 (90.1) | 7 (9.9) | 0.007 | 1.95 [0.86–4.39] |
Palliative care | 116 (89.2) | 14 (10.8) | < 0.001 | 1.80 [0.97–3.33] |
Surgery | 177 (81.9) | 39 (18.1) | 0.057 | 1.42 [0.89–2.27] |
Others | 407 (71.2) | 165 (28.8) | < 0.001 | 1.02 [0.68–1.54] |
Workplace | ||||
Hospital | 613 (85.0) | 108 (15.0) | < 0.001 | 1.00 (ref) |
Clinic | 305 (63.8) | 173 (36.2) | < 0.001 | 0.37 [0.27–0.50] |
Nursing home | 16 (94.1) | 1 (5.9) | 0.14 | 2.97 [0.39–22.89] |
Others | 36 (81.8) | 8 (18.2) | 0.44 | 0.85 [0.38–1.91] |