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. 2015 Apr;84(4):237–247. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.01.008

Table 2.

Logistic regression model comparing those who did not expect to be asked for consent before access to their de-identified record (base = implicit consent model) and those who did expect to be asked for consent (explicit consent model), with respect to socio-demographic factors, computer confidence, healthcare experience and awareness of EHRs. P-values and 95% confidence intervals are adjusted for clustering by sampling site (N = 3157).

Consent for de-identified record access (base: implicit consent)
Unadjusted OR
P OR Adjusted OR
OR 95% CI 95% CI P
Sex (base: female)
 Male 0.66 (0.56,0.78) <0.001 0.66 (0.56,0.78) <0.001



Age (base: 25–34)
 18–24 1.21 (0.86,1.72) 0.27 1.07 (0.73,1.56) 0.75
 35–44 1.07 (0.93,1.23) 0.33 1.05 (0.92,1.20) 0.45
 45–54 1.13 (0.90,1.41) 0.29 1.15 (0.90,1.48) 0.26
 55–64 0.88 (0.61,1.26) 0.49 0.83 (0.55,1.26) 0.39
 65–74 1.09 (0.83,1.45) 0.52 0.94 (0.65,1.36) 0.75
 75+ 1.11 (0.83,1.49) 0.48 0.79 (0.53,1.17) 0.24



Ethnicity (base: White British)
 White Non-British 1.42 (1.18,1.71) <0.001 1.46 (1.19,1.79) <0.001
 British Black 1.97 (1.45,2.66) <0.001 1.71 (1.25,2.34) <0.001
 Asian British 1.67 (1.34,2.10) <0.001 1.79 (1.37,2.34) <0.001
 Other 1.70 (1.40,2.06) <0.001 1.66 (1.33,2.07) <0.001



Education (base: higher degree)
 None 1.62 (1.07,2.47) 0.02 1.41 (0.89,2.23) 0.14
 GCSE 1.68 (1.21,2.32) <0.001 1.61 (1.09,2.36) 0.02
 A level 1.54 (1.33,1.77) <0.001 1.47 (1.26,1.72) <0.001
 Vocational 1.18 (0.92,1.51) 0.19 1.09 (0.82,1.44) 0.56
 Degree 0.98 (0.84,1.15) 0.83 0.97 (0.86,1.10) 0.66



Computer confidence (base: very confident)
 Not confident 1.76 (1.47,2.09) <0.001 1.65 (1.23,2.21) <0.001
 Fairly confident 1.43 (1.24,1.66) <0.001 1.38 (1.12,1.70) <0.001
 Confident 1.07 (0.94,1.22) 0.31 1.05 (0.93,1.18) 0.47



NHS services accessed in the past 6 months (base: 0 to 2 types)
 3+ types 0.94 (0.82,1.08) 0.40 0.92 (0.81,1.05) 0.21



Awareness of EHRs (base: not aware)
 Aware of EHRs 0.67 (0.59,0.75) <0.001 0.77 (0.67,0.88) <0.001