Table 4.

Relationships between Organizational Characteristics and Practice Culture (Odds ratio, p-value)

	Collegiality	Information Emphasis	Quality Emphasis	Management Style	Cohesiveness	Organizational Trust	Adaptive	Autonomy	Business Emphasis
Practice Size (4 or more physicians vs. 2–3 physicians)	1.0 (0.86)	0.9 (0.79)	0.7 (0.14)	1.2 (0.52)	0.7 (0.25)	0.7 (0.07)	1.0 (0.98)	1.0 (0.93)	1.4 (0.15)
Physician Owned (vs. hospital owned or other)	1.3 (0.27)	1.0 (0.94)	2.1 (0.004)	1.2 (0.36)	2.3 (0.003)	2.4 (<0.001)	1.5 (0.10)	1.1 (0.80)	1.4 (0.09)
Access to clinical guidelines	1.2 (0.49)	2.3 (0.01)	1.2 (0.46)	1.0 (0.87)	1.0 (0.90)	1.1 (0.65)	1.3 (0.37)	0.9 (0.67)	0.8 (0.43)
Use clinical guidelines	1.2 (0.45)	2.1 (0.02)	1.0 (0.95)	0.9 (0.71)	1.0 (0.94)	1.0 (0.99)	1.2 (0.49)	0.8 (0.44)	0.8 (0.30)
Use of EMR	1.8 (0.02)	4.6 (<0.001)	1.0 (0.88)	1.0 (0.87)	1.3 (0.29)	1.2 (0.37)	1.2 (0.40)	1.0 (0.83)	0.9 (0.80)

Bold = relationship is significant at .05 or below

An odds ratio greater than 1 indicates a positive relationship

An odds ratio less than 1 indicates a negative relationship