Table 4.

The likelihood of reporting patient requests ‘(very) often’ by clinicians’ background, adjusting for other background characteristics included in the model by logistic regression, odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) (n = 12 255)

	Model 11	Model 22	Model 33
Drugs
Age	0.97 (0.97–0.98)	0.99 (0.99–1.00)	0.98 (0.98–0.99)
Gender
Women	1.00	1.00	1.00
Men	0.78 (0.72–0.85)	0.76 (0.70–0.83)	0.79 (0.73–0.86)
Main occupation
Hospital	1.00	–	1.00
Health centre	2.35 (2.12–2.60)	–	2.12 (1.91–2.35)
Private practice	1.35 (1.16–1.57)	–	1.31 (1.13–1.53)
Other	1.73 (1.56–1.92)	–	1.64 (1.48–1.82)
Specialisation
Specialised	–	1.00	1.00
Non‐specialised	–	1.83 (1.66–2.01)	1.54 (1.40–1.70)
Surgical procedures
Age	0.98 (0.97–0.98)	0.98 (0.98–0.99)	0.98 (0.98–0.99)
Gender
Women	1.00	1.00	1.00
Men	1.14 (1.04–1.24)	1.15 (1.05–1.26)	1.15 (1.05–1.25)
Main occupation
Hospital	1.00	–	1.00
Health centre	1.58 (1.42–1.75)	–	1.50 (1.35–1.67)
Private practice	0.85 (0.72–1.00)	–	0.84 (0.71–0.99)
Other	0.62 (0.55–0.70)	–	0.60 (0.53–0.68)
Specialisation
Specialised	–	1.00	1.00
Non‐specialised	–	1.31 (1.18–1.45)	1.21 (1.09–1.35)
Laboratory examinations
Age	0.96 (0.96–0.97)	0.99 (0.99–0.99)	0.98 (0.98–0.99)
Gender
Women	1.00	1.00	1.00
Men	0.77 (0.71–0.84)	0.76 (0.71–0.83)	0.79 (0.72–0.86)
Main occupation
Hospital	1.00	–	1.00
Health centre	6.30 (5.65–7.03)	–	5.52 (4.94–6.17)
Private practice	0.85 (0.74–0.99)	–	0.82 (0.70–0.95)
Other	1.44 (1.31–1.59)	–	1.34 (1.21–1.48)
Specialisation
Specialised	–	1.00	1.00
Non‐specialised	–	2.43 (2.22–2.66)	1.80 (1.63–1.98)

¹The model includes age as a continuous variable, sex and occupation.

²The model includes age as a continuous variable, sex, and specialisation.

³The model includes age as a continuous variable, sex, occupation, and specialisation.

Clinicians reporting ‘(very) often’ patient requests were tested against the ‘(very) seldom’ groups.

‘No information’ groups were excluded in the analyses.