Table 5.

Average of decisions per encounter across gender, age, setting and specialty

	Average (95% CI)
Physicians
Men	12.7 (11.9 to 13.5)
Women	14.7 (13.4 to 16.0)
Age <40 years	13.5 (12.5 to 14.6)
Age ≥40 years	13.2 (12.3 to 14.2)
Patients
Men	13.2 (12.2 to 14.2)
Women	13.6 (12.6 to 14.5)
Age 0–17 years	12.4 (10.8 to 14.0)
Age 18–60 years	14.1 (13.1 to 15.2)
Age >60 years	13.0 (11.9 to 14.2)
Setting
Outpatient clinic	13.4 (12.6 to 14.2)
Ward round	14.0 (11.9 to 16.1)
Emergency room	11.3 (9.1 to 13.4)
Specialty
Internal medicine	15.7 (14.5 to 16.9)
Surgery	12.1 (10.4 to 13.8)
Orthopaedics	12.6 (10.5 to 14.6)
Ear–nose–throat (ENT)*	7.1 (4.7 to 9.6)
Anaesthesiology	11.1 (5.1 to 17.1)
Obstetrics and gynaecology†	11.0 (9.3 to 12.7)
Paediatrics‡	13.4 (11.2 to 15.5)
Neurology§	13.6 (11.6 to 15.5)

*Significantly lower than internal medicine (P=0.006).

†Significantly lower than internal medicine (P=0.023).

‡Significantly higher than ENT (P=0.041).

§Significantly higher than ENT (P=0.029).