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Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Surviv. 2020 Sep 16;15(3):418–426. doi: 10.1007/s11764-020-00937-0

Table 2.

Physician characteristics associated with encouraging patients to seek help outside the physician-patient relationship

Characteristics N (%)* OR (95% CI) P values
Physician specialty
 Endocrinology 103 (59) Ref Ref
 General surgery 67 (50) 1.19 (0.66–2.14) 0.562
 Otolaryngology 69 (54) 1.08 (0.62–1.89) 0.791
Practice setting
 Academic medical center 55 (66) Ref Ref
 Large medical group or staff-model HMO 56 (49) 0.52 (0.26–1.02) 0.057
 Private practice 128 (53) 0.63 (0.35–1.16) 0.136
Years in practice
 <10 55 (67) Ref Ref
 10–19 85 (60) 0.77 (0.42–1.40) 0.387
 20–29 67 (57) 0.90 (0.46–1.74) 0.746
 ≥30 33 (35) 0.30 (0.15–0.60) 0.001
Thyroid cancer patient volume in past year
 ≤10 67 (48) Ref Ref
 11–30 72 (47) 0.94 (0.55–1.61) 0.819
 31–50 42 (68) 2.13 (1.01–4.51) 0.048
 >50 60 (68) 1.97 (0.97–3.99) 0.060
Physician perceived patient worry at time of diagnosis
 Not at all to somewhat worried 69 (45) Ref Ref
 Quite/Very worried 174 (61) 1.82 (1.17–2.82) 0.008
SEER Site
 Georgia 115 (57) Ref Ref
 Los Angeles 129 (53) 0.97 (0.62–1.49) 0.874
*

Percentages weighted for non-response