Table 3.

Odds of nephrologists considering preemptive transplantation as the best treatment modality for eligible CKD patients^a

Characteristics (reference group)	Odds Ratio	95% CI
Male (female)	0.574	0.318, 1.034
Board-certified nephrologists (not board-certified)	1.027	0.409, 2.582
Experience > 10 yr (experience ≤ 10 yr)	0.417b	0.239, 0.726
Hospital practice (private practice)	0.859	0.533, 1.384
Practice in rural area (urban/suburban)	1.288	0.526, 3.154
Number of CKD patients >50 (≤50)	1.158	0.651, 2.060
Number of transplant patients >50 (≤50)	1.705	0.996, 2.919
Follows pediatric patients (no pediatric patients)	1.197	0.543, 2.636
Needs one encounter to motivate patient to pursue preemptive transplantation (needs more than one encounter)	1.686b	1.064, 2.673

^aCI, confidence interval.

^bP < 0.05.