PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN CHARACTERISTICS | ODDS RATIO (95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL) | P VALUE† |
---|---|---|
Years since graduation from medical school‡ | ||
• >24 (N=14) | 0.6 (0.4–1.0) | .04 |
• ≤24 (N=14) | ||
Patient diagnosed with hypertension or taking antihypertensive medications§ | ||
• Yes | 4.6 (3.3–6.3) | <.001 |
• No | ||
No. of visits to family physician during the 12 months for any reason|| | ||
• 2–5 (vs 1 visit) | 5.1 (3.4–7.7) | <.001 |
• >5 (vs 1 visit) | 13.5 (8.0–22.8) | <.001 |
↵* After a full multivariate model was run (including patient age and sex, hypertension, family physician visits, smoking, heart disease, diabetes, no. of years since graduation, practice type, and payment type), only statistically significant variables (P< .05) were included in this reduced model (no. of years since graduation, hypertension, no. of office visits).
↵† P values were calculated from logistic regression analyses that accounted for clustering within practices.
↵‡ Median of 24.0 (mean 25.8, standard error [SE] 1.4); years since graduation were calculated by subtracting age at graduation (mean 26.5, SE 0.4) from age at audit (mean 52.3, SE 1.2); median years since graduation (24.0) was used to dichotomize the variable.
↵§ Documentation of prescription for antihypertensive medication during 12-month audit period.
↵|| Mean no. of visits was 5.9, SE 0.1.