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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Dec;116(6):1257–1264. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181fb540f

Table 2.

Requirement of a Pelvic Examination for Oral Contraception, Unadjusted and Adjusted Logistic Regression Odds Ratios (n=1,120)

Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Clinician characteristics
  Specialty
    MD Ob-gyn Referent Referent
    MD family medicine 1.20 (0.84–1.70) 1.51 (1.03–2.21)*
    APN Ob-gyn/women’s health 0.48 (0.34–0.70) 0.59 (0.39–0.90)*
    APN family medicine 1.98 (1 38–2.84) 2.38 (1.58–3.59)
Age (y) 1.03 (1.01–1.04) 1.03 (1.01–1.04)
White (non-Hispanic) 0.74 (0.53–1.05) 0.70 (0.47–1.04)
Female 0.77 (0.57–1.03) NA
Training in family planning 0.83 (0.79–1.84)* 1.06 (0.65–1.70)
Practice characteristics
  Main clinical practice setting
    Community or family-planning clinic Referent Referent
    Private practice 1.54 (1.01–2.34)* 2.30 (1.28–4.13)
    Hospital-based 1.26 (0.75–2.12) 1.59 (0.87–2.92)
  Rural practice location 1.03 (0.75–1.42) 0.84 (0.57–1.23)
  Region
    West Referent Referent
    Midwest 1.44 (0.93–2.23) 1.39 (0.87–2.21)
    Northeast 1.31 (0.82–2.10) 1.13 (0.68–1.89)
    South 1.98 (1.33–2.94) 1.70 (1.10–2.62)*
Patient population
  At least half of patients are teenage girls 0.83 (0.56–1.24) 0.96 (0.61–1.53)
  At least half of patients are minority race or ethnicity 1.42 (1.05–1.94)* 1.16 (0.81–1.68)
  At least half of patients use Medicaid 1.42 (1.05–1.94)* 1.62 (1.11–2.37)*
  At least half of patients are uninsured 1.21 (0.79–1.84) 1.53 (0.90–2.63)
  At least half of patients at risk for STIs or HIV or both 0.80 (0.59–1.07) 0.78 (0.56–1.09)

  Design-based Wald test, F (17,1100) 4.57

APN, advance practice nurse; NA, clinician sex cannot be included in the adjusted model because nearly all advance practice nurses are female; STIs, sexually transmitted infections.

*

P<.05.

P<.001.

P<.01.