Table 2.
Adjusted Odds Ratios of Physician Report that Clinical Care is Better as a Result of the Electronic Referral Process, by Physician Characteristics
| Bivariate (%) | Multivariate AOR (95% CI)* | |
| Training | ||
| Attending physician | 67.9 | 1.00 |
| Nurse practitioner | 64.6 | 1.30 (0.63-3.75) |
| Resident | 87.1 | 2.31 (0.96-5.54) |
| Type of primary care | ||
| Internal medicine | 73.8 | 1.00 |
| Family medicine | 74.5 | 1.10 (0.56-2.16) |
| Setting | ||
| Hospital-based clinic | 80.9 | 1.00 |
| County-funded community clinic | 67.1 | 0.72 (0.35-1.49) |
| Non-county-funded comm clinic | 50.0 | 0.40 (0.18-0.91)‡ |
| Average time spent submitting referral | ||
| <6 min/eReferral | 83.6 | 1.00 |
| ≥6 min/eReferral | 62.5 | 0.33 (0.18-0.61)§ |
| Affinity for new technology† | ||
| Low affinity | 69.3 | 1.00 |
| High affinity | 74.2 | 1.16 (0.65-2.08) |
“Better” vs. “same” or “worse” with electronic referrals compared to prior method of referring
*Adjusted for training level, specialty, clinic setting, affinity for technology, average minutes spent per eReferral
†5-point Likert scale dichotomized to “high affinity” if summation score of four items ≥3 indicating somewhat or strongly agree with using newer information technology16
‡p = 0.02
§p < 0.01