Table 4.

Patient characteristics independently-associated with increasing proportion of attending copying using multivariate regression

Patient Characteristic	Regression Coefficient	p	95% CI
Age	.08	.23	−.05 – .21
Women	−.91	.61	−4.4 – 2.6
Race and Ethnicity (White = referent)
Black	−1.3	.58	−6.1 – 3.4
Hispanic	−.41	.9	−7.1 – 6.2
Other	1.5	.82	−12 – 15
Insurance Status (Uninsured = referent)
Medicaid	−1.5	.66	−8.2 – 5.2
Medicare	−3.3	.33	−10 – 3.4
Private	.91	.83	−7.4 – 9.2
Admission category (Sepsis = referent)
Acute Respiratory Failure	.08	.98	−6.1 – 6.3
Cardiovascular	6.4	.25	−4.6 – 17
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage	−.51	.92	−11 – 9.9
Metabolic	4.7	.33	−4.8 – 14
Neurologic	−3.2	.36	−9.8 – 3.6
SOFA on ICU admit	.28	.35	−.32 – .9
SOFA change 72 hours following ICU admit	.14	.66	−.49 – .78
Duration of mechanical ventilation	−.16	.43	−.57 – .24
ICU length of stay	.49	.34	−.55 – 1.5
Attending Physicians
Attending 1	−10	.06	−20 – .39
Attending 2	−3.3	.4	−11 – 4.4
Attending 3	30	<.001	25 – 35
Attending 4	16	<.001	9.1 – 24
Attending 5	.13	.97	−7.2 – 7.5
Attending 6	−.94	.83	−9.6 – 7.7
Attending 7	−3.4	.31	−10 – 3.2
Attending 8	−6.5	.04	−13 – −.29
Attending-Patient racial concordance	−1.3	.57	−6.0 – 3.3

Includes attendings who wrote notes on greater than 25 enrolled patients.

SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment

ICU, intensive care unit