Table 4.

Family Physicians’ Personal and Practice Characteristics that Influence Appropriate Therapy in Patients: Odds Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals

	Crude	Adjusted*
Physician
Sex (women)	0.92 (0.78, 1.09)	0.92 (0.79, 1.08)
Current member of College of Family Physicians of Canada	1.06 (0.90, 1.25)	1.07 (0.87, 1.31)
Year of graduation from medical school (10 year increase)	0.96 (0.86, 1.09)	0.98 (0.87, 1.11)
Country of Medical School
Canada	0.94 (0.71, 1.25)	0.93 (0.67, 1.27)
Description of Work (yes)
Full-time practice	1.12 (0.69, 1.84)	1.33 (0.84, 2.11)
Hospital privileges	0.92 (0.76, 1.11)	0.84 (0.67, 1.05)
House calls	0.93 (0.77, 1.11)	0.93 (0.76, 1.12)
Provides after-hours call coverage	1.07 (0.88, 1.28)	1.11 (0.89, 1.37)
Type of Practice (yes)
Group	0.93 (0.77, 1.12)	0.90 (0.74, 1.09)
Teaching practice	0.93 (0.78, 1.11)	0.94 (0.77, 1.15)
Works with interdisciplinary team	0.96 (0.80, 1.14)	1.10 (0.86, 1.40)
Use of electronic health records	1.24 (1.01, 1.53)	1.30 (1.06, 1.59)
Medical practice income mainly generated from fee-for-service billing	1.20 (0.99, 1.45)	1.26 (0.98, 1.62)

^*Personal and practice characteristics of the physicians that were adjusted for in the analysis include sex, year of graduation from medical school, country of medical school, full- or part-time practice, hospital privileges, provides house calls, has after-hours call coverage for a defined group of patients, solo or group practice, works in a teaching practice, is involved with an interdisciplinary team on site, uses electronic health records, uses fee-for-service billing, and has current membership in the College of Family Physicians of Canada.