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. 2017 Dec 11;5(4):E834–E841. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20170005

Table 6: Factors associated with noncompliance in chest and abdominal imaging on multivariate logistic regression.

Variable Probability of undertesting of chest,
OR (95% CI)
Probability of overtesting of abdomen,
OR (95% CI)
Univariate  Multivariate Univariate Multivariate
Male v. female 0.95 (0.76-1.17) 0.90 (0.70-1.17) 0.90 (0.74-1.11) 0.97 (0.76-1.25)
Age at procedure, yr (> 75 v. < 75) 1.39 (1.00-1.93) 1.43 (0.96-2.12) 0.80 (0.58-1.02) 1.02 (0.68-1.51)
High grade (yes v. no) 0.84 (0.68-1.03) 0.67 (0.51-0.87) 0.67 (0.55-0.82) 0.97 (0.75-1.24)
Positive surgical margin (yes v. no) 1.16 (0.78-1.75) 0.84 (0.51-1.38) 0.89 (0.60-1.32) 1.61 (0.98-2.64)
Radical nephrectomy (yes v. no) 1.06 (0.86-1.30) 0.61 (0.45-0.82) 0.62 (0.51-0.76) 1.06 (0.80-1.39)
Histologic type*
    Other renal cell carcinoma Reference Reference Reference Reference
    Low risk 1.24 (0.99-1.57) 3.14 (1.51-6.50) 0.94 (0.75-1.18) 0.69 (0.37-1.29)
    Conventional clear cell 0.89 (0.71-1.12) 2.28 (1.12-4.48) 1.08 (0.87-1.34) 0.87 (0.48-1.56)
Cancer stage
    pT1 Reference Reference Reference Reference
    pT2 3.00 (2.11-4.26) 5.36 (3.37-8.54) 0.90 (0.63-1.26) 0.71 (0.46-1.09)
    pT3 1.42 (1.12-1.81) 2.64 (1.86-3.74) 0.27 (0.21-0.35) 0.23 (0.16-0.32)
Smoker (yes v. no) 0.81 (0.60-1.09) 0.88 (0.64-1.22) 1.03 (0.78-1.36) 0.96 (0.71-1.30)
Family history of kidney cancer (yes v. no) 1.39 (0.90-2.07) 1.48 (0.91-2.40) 0.92 (0.61-1.39) 1.04 (0.64-1.69)

Note: CI = confidence interval, OR = odds ratio.

*Primary histologic type from pathology report; low-risk category includes papillary and chromophobe renal cell carcinoma.