Table 2.
Factors Associated With Probability of Having a Pain Discussion and Length of the Discussion
| Probability of Having a Pain Discussion |
Length of Discussion on Pain |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| OR | Hazard Ratio |
% Diff |
|
| Topic order (2nd or 3rd) | NA | 1.68 * | −32 |
| Topic order (4th, 5th, or 6th) | NA | 2.22 ** | −44 |
| Topic order (≥7th) | NA | 4.62 ** | −68 |
| Patient had more than high school education | 0.91 | 0.73 * | 25 |
| SF36 bodily pain | 0.97 * | 1.01 | |
| Pysician practiced family medicine | 0.75 | 1.14 | |
| Pysician’s years in practice | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Pysician’s supportiveness | 1.03 * | 1.00 | |
| Years of patient-pysician relationship | 0.98 | 1.03 ** | −2 |
| Number of instances per topic | NA | 0.73 ** | 26 |
| Patient initiation of pain topic | NA | 1.05 | |
| Presence of patient’s companion | 1.10 | 0.91 | |
| Patient and pysician from different race (control: same race) |
1.08 | 1.46 * | −24 |
| Patient and pysician of different gender (control: same gender) |
1.61 * | 0.91 | |
| Patient and pysician of dissimilar age (control: ≤10 years of age difference) |
1.51 | 0.83 | |
|
| |||
| Shape parameter | NA | 1.35 | |
| N | 364 | 227 | |
Note:
*
P<0.05
**
p<0.01
NA: topic-level variables, not included for visit-level analysis