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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2019 Feb 16;110:23–33. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.02.009

Table 2.

Association between decision-making factors and the strength of recommendations

Mixed-effect model [ordered logistic regression] Dependent variable: neither for/against; weak for/weak against; strong for/strong against odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI)
Fixed effect
Role: chair (reference category)
Methodologist 1.47 (95% CI .57–3.80; P = .43)
Patient representative 0.38 (95% CI .13–1.18; P = .09)
Panel member 1.07 (95% CI .58–1.98; P = .83)
Vulnerable population
Yes vs. no 1.27 (95% CI .81–2.00; P = .3)
Pressured to “vote” certain way 0.84 (95% CI .31–2.31; P = .74)
Recused from “voting”
Yes vs. no 1.36 (95% CI .92–2.03; P = .13)
Age (per decade) 1.79 (95% CI 1.2–2.84; P = 0.005)
Sex
Female vs. male 1.10 (95% CI .75–1.62; P = .61)
Experience (years in management of given condition) 0.97 (95% CI .926–1.00; P = .09)
Expertise (considers oneself with higher, same or low expertise than most other experts) 0.74 (95% CI .51–1.09; P = .13)
Exposure (# of patients per month with given condition) 0.90 (95% CI .77041.06; P = .21)
Objectivism (tendency to seek empirical information) 1.29 (95% CI .78–2.17; P = .34)
Tendency toward rational (analytical) thinking 0.66 (95% CI .36–.1.10; P = .11)
Tendency toward experiential-intuitive thinking 0.95 (95% CI .67–1.34; P = .76)
Satisficing (tendency to accept “good” enough solution) 1.13 (95% CI .63–2.02; P = .68)
Maximizing (decision difficulty)—degree difficulty experienced when making choices among abundant options 1.05 (95% CI .78–1.41; P = .766)
Maximizing (alternative search)—tendency to expand resources in search for best possible solution 1.08 (95% CI .81–1.43; P = .606)
Intolerance of uncertainty 0.57 (95% CI .37–.86; P = 0.008)
Regret of making a wrong recommendation 0.99 (95% CI .98–1.02; P = .93)
Certainty in evidence 1.84 (95% CI 1.462.31; P < 0.0001)
Importance of patients’ values and preferences 1.48 (95% CI 1.15–1.89; P = 0.002)
Balance between benefits and harms 1.49 (95% CI 1.31–1.70; P < 0.0001)
Importance of cost and resources 1.06 (95% CI .86–1.28; P = .56)
Random intercepts
 Panel (variance) 0.62 (95% CI .19–2.05)
 Participant within panel (variance) 2.18 × 10−34

Bolded text refers to statistically significant findings.