Table 4 Association between physicians’ characteristics and agreement that medical/care staff should provide advance care planning
Agree that advance care planning be provided by medical and care staff | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bivariate analysis | Multivariable logistic regression analysis | |||
Yes (N = 1035) n (%) | No/Not sure (N = 225) n (%) | p | OR [95%CI] | |
Gender | 0.004 | |||
Male | 858 (80.8) | 204 (19.2) | 0.47 [0.29–0.78] | |
Years of practice | 0.14 | |||
1–15 | 134 (87.6) | 19 (12.4) | 1.00 (ref) | |
16–30 | 385 (82.3) | 83 (17.7) | 0.78 [0.45–1.36] | |
≥ 31 | 516 (80.8) | 123 (19.2) | 0.84 [0.48–1.45] | |
Specialty | ||||
Internal medicine | 484 (83.9) | 93 (16.1) | 0.14 | 1.20 [0.78–1.83] |
General medicine | 67 (94.4) | 4 (5.6) | 0.006 | 2.68 [0.95–7.55] |
Palliative care | 122 (93.9) | 8 (6.2) | < 0.001 | 2.43 [1.13–5.24] |
Surgery | 191 (88.4) | 25 (11.6) | 0.008 | 1.52 [0.90–2.58] |
Others | 439 (76.8) | 133 (23.3) | < 0.001 | 0.70 [0.46–1.09] |
Workplace | ||||
Hospital | 628 (87.1) | 93 (12.9) | < 0.001 | 1.00 (ref) |
Clinic | 350 (73.2) | 128 (26.8) | < 0.001 | 0.54 [0.39–0.75] |
Nursing home | 16(94.1) | 1 (5.9) | 0.34 | 2.69 [0.35–20.78] |
Others | 41 (93.2) | 3 (6.8) | 0.052 | 2.38 [0.71–7.96] |