Table 5 Association between physicians’ characteristics and practice of advance care planning
Practice advance care planning | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bivariate analysis | Multivariable logistic regression analysis | |||
Practice (N = 800) n (%) | No (N = 460) n (%) | p | OR [95%CI] | |
Gender | 0.027 | |||
Male | 688 (64.8) | 374 (35.2) | 1.58 [1.05–2.36] | |
Years of practice | 0.002 | |||
1–15 | 113 (73.9) | 40 (26.1) | 1.00 (ref) | |
16–30 | 307 (65.6) | 161 (34.4) | 0.91 [0.56–1.49] | |
≥ 31 | 380 (59.5) | 259 (40.5) | 0.72 [0.44–1.16] | |
Specialty | ||||
Internal medicine | 419 (72.6) | 158 (27.4) | < 0.001 | 2.38 [1.60–3.55] |
General medicine | 64 (90.1) | 7 (9.9) | < 0.001 | 3.38 [1.44–7.94] |
Palliative care | 125 (96.2) | 5 (3.8) | < 0.001 | 9.49 [3.67–24.53] |
Surgery | 180 (83.3) | 36 (16.7) | < 0.001 | 2.50 [1.55–4.05] |
Others | 258 (45.1) | 314 (54.9) | < 0.001 | 0.56 [0.37–0.82] |
Workplace | ||||
Hospital | 591 82.0 | 130 (18.0) | < 0.001 | 1.00 (ref) |
Clinic | 167 34.9 | 311 (65.1) | < 0.001 | 0.16 [0.12–0.22] |
Nursing home | 14 82.4 | 3 (17.6) | 0.10 | 1.16 [0.31–4.29] |
Others | 28 63.6 | 16 (36.4) | 0.98 | 0.67 [0.33–1.36] |