Table 2. The Relationship of Patient, Provider, and Organizational Factors to Initial Diagnosis of Diabetes and Management of an Emerging Foot Neuropathy.
Undiagnosed Vignette Diabetes Diagnosis | Diagnosed Vignette Perform ≥ 2 exams | |||
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OR1 | p-value | OR1 | p-value | |
Patient Factors | ||||
Age (65 vs. 35) | 0.88 | 0.66 | 1.41 | 0.24 |
Socioeconomic Status (High vs. Low) | 0.74 | 0.30 | 1.54 | 0.14 |
Race (Black vs. White) | 2.94 | 0.004 | 0.72 | 0.37 |
Ethnicity (Hispanic vs. White) | 1.66 | 0.16 | 0.82 | 0.59 |
Gender (Female vs. Male) | 0.67 | 0.18 | 0.55 | 0.04 |
Physician Factors | ||||
Gender (Female vs. Male) | 1.48 | 0.18 | 1.54 | 0.14 |
Experience (More vs. Less) | 1.62 | 0.10 | 0.84 | 0.56 |
Physician Work Stress (Higher Values = More Stress) | ||||
Overall Stress | 0.94 | 0.75 | 1.18 | 0.38 |
Stress (Effort scale) | 0.91 | 0.61 | 1.17 | 0.39 |
Stress (Reward scale) | 0.98 | 0.89 | 1.12 | 0.47 |
Perceived Autonomy | ||||
Clinical Autonomy | 1.09 | 0.83 | 0.99 | 0.98 |
Administrative Autonomy | 1.26 | 0.35 | 0.96 | 0.85 |
Organizational Factors | ||||
Practice Size | ||||
Solo Practice (vs. Large Group) | 1.52 | 0.24 | 1.25 | 0.51 |
Small Group (vs. Large Group) | 0.70 | 0.35 | 1.07 | 0.85 |
Physician Owned (vs. Non-Physician Owned) | 0.83 | 0.54 | 1.53 | 0.15 |
For-Profit (vs. Non-Profit) | 1.47 | 0.23 | 1.26 | 0.47 |
Practice Culture (High vs. Low) | ||||
Collegiality | 1.00 | 0.91 | 2.18 | 0.04 |
Information Emphasis | 1.26 | 0.56 | 1.79 | 0.15 |
Quality Emphasis | 0.65 | 0.29 | 1.16 | 0.71 |
Management Style | 1.91 | 0.08 | 1.76 | 0.13 |
Cohesiveness | 1.27 | 0.59 | 2.72 | 0.03 |
Organizational Trust | 3.07 | 0.004 | 2.07 | 0.06 |
Adaptive | 1.61 | 0.19 | 0.89 | 0.75 |
Autonomy | 1.92 | 0.10 | 0.45 | 0.05 |
Profit Maximization | 0.80 | 0.57 | 2.01 | 0.08 |
Guidelines (Yes vs. No) | ||||
Access to Guidelines | 0.86 | 0.69 | 2.00 | 0.06 |
Use guidelines in your practice | 0.79 | 0.52 | 1.64 | 0.15 |
Guidelines affect decisions | 1.20 | 0.59 | 1.76 | 0.08 |
Do you have any disease management tools in your practice? | ||||
Any tools | 0.87 | 0.65 | 1.42 | 0.23 |
Audit/Feedback/Tracking reports | 1.11 | 0.74 | 1.04 | 0.90 |
Email/Chat rooms/Bulletin boards | 0.28 | 0.01 | 2.85 | 0.07 |
Specially trained nurse, educator, etc. | 1.10 | 0.82 | 0.78 | 0.53 |
Electronic reminders | 1.32 | 0.50 | 1.19 | 0.67 |
Portable devices for patients | 0.69 | 0.31 | 0.84 | 0.64 |
Email communication with patients | 0.77 | 0.47 | 1.24 | 0.56 |
Use electronic medical record (EMR) | 0.79 | 0.45 | 1.02 | 0.96 |
(Time needed - Time allocated) for patient visits | ||||
New patient appointment 2 | 0.76 | 0.09 | 1.05 | 0.74 |
Routine Consultation 2 | 0.84 | 0.47 | 1.23 | 0.42 |
Complete physical examination 2 | 0.85 | 0.24 | 1.20 | 0.21 |
Odds Ratio (OR)
OR is for a 10 minute difference between time needed and time allocated