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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 30.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Feb 1;174(2):194–201. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.11320

Table 2.

Factors Associated with a County Being in the Lower Tertile of CPR Training

Variable OR (95% CI) Chi Square p-value
Percent rural (per 5 PP increase) 1.12 (1.10, 1.15) 106.85 <0.001
Region 32.43 <0.001
 South (vs. Northeast) 7.78 (3.66, 16.53) 28.43 <0.001
 Midwest (vs. Northeast) 5.56 (2.63,-11.75) 20.14 <0.001
 West (vs. Northeast) 5.39 (2.48, 11.72) 18.01 <0.001
Percent Black (per 5 PP increase) 1.09 (1.06, 1.13) 23.79 <0.001
Number of physicians (per 100 MDs decrease) 1.59 (1.32, 1.92) 23.61 <0.001
Percent Hispanic (per 5 PP increase) 1.06 (1.02, 1.11) 9.23 0.002
Median household income (per $10,000 decrease) 1.18 (1.04, 1.34) 6.68 0.010
Median age (per 10 year decrease) 1.28 (1.04, 1.58) 5.35 0.021
Percent without college education (per 5 PP decrease) 1.09 (0.97, 1.21) 2.24 0.135
Percent male (per 5 PP increase) 1.07 (0.88, 891.30) 0.42 0.519
Percent Asian (per 5 PP increase) 1.06 (0.73, 1.53) 0.10 0.758
Heart disease mortality (per 100,000 people) 1.000(0.997, 1.002) 0.09 0.768

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; MD, medical doctor; OR, odds ratio; PP, percentage point; vs, versus