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. 2003 Nov 5;2:10. doi: 10.1186/1475-9276-2-10

Table 4.

Associations between physician gender and agreeing to statement 1–5 (scoring >50 on VAS) when entered into multivariate logistic regression analyses together with speciality, age, academic degree and years in the profession. Presented as adjusted OR (95% CI).

Statement 1 Statement 2 Statement 3 Statement 4 Statement 5
Gender
 Men 1 1 1 1 1
 Women 1.9 (1.0 – 3.5) 2.4 (1.2 – 4.7) 2.3 (1.3 – 4.1) 3.3 (1.8 – 5.8) 3.2 (1.7 – 6.1)
Speciality
 Hospital doctors 1 1 1 1 1
 Family physicians 1.9 (0.8 – 4.2) 2.7 (1.1 – 6.3) 2.5 (1.2 – 5.2) 1.9 (0.9 – 3.9) 2.1 (0.9 – 4.6)
Age
 ≤45 1 1 1 1 1
 >45 1.1 (0.5 – 2.2) 0.9 (0.4 – 1.9) 0.7 (0.3 – 1.3) 0.9 (0.4 – 1.6) 1.1 (0.6 – 2.2)
Academic degree
 PhD 1 1 1 1 1
 MD 0.7 (0.4 – 1.4) 0.8 (0.4 – 1.5) 0.6 (0.3 – 1.2) 0.9 (0.4 – 1.7) 1.1 (0.5 – 2.0)
Years in profession
 ≤15 1 1 1 1 1
 >15 1.0 (0.5 – 2.1) 0.8 (0.3 – 1.7) 0.8 (0.3 – 1.5) 1.0 (0.5 – 2.4) 0.9 (0.4 – 1.8)