Table 4.

Generalized estimating equation results predicting whether providers educate the patients about glaucoma and glaucoma medications (N = 279).

Independent variables	Education about glaucoma OR (95% CI)	P	Education about glaucoma medications OR (95% CI)	P
Patient age	0.98 (0.96, 1.01)	0.377	1.01 (0.98, 1.04)	0.056
Patient gender: female	1.06 (0.64, 1.76)	0.235	1.12 (0.68, 1.84)	0.474
Patient race: African American	0.47 (0.34, 0.66)	<0.001	1.67 (0.77, 3.62)	0.191
Newly prescribed glaucoma medications versus already on glaucoma medications	5.24 (2.05, 13.4)	0.001	7.26 (3.61, 14.6)	<0.001
REALM: reads at eighth grade level or less	0.93 (0.57, 1.51)	0.762	0.38 (0.18, 0.79)	0.009
Physician age	1.01 (0.97, 1.05)	0.742	1.04 (1.01, 1.07)	0.003
Physician gender-female	1.63 (0.70, 3.76)	0.257	2.24 (0.63, 7.9)	0.211

OR: odds ratio; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval.