Table 2.

Physician and Patient Factors Associated With Clinical Inertia

	Odds Ratio	P Value	95% CI
Physician characteristics
Age	0.997	.892	0.954	1.042
Male sex	0.972	.882	0.668	1.415
Physician specialty
Internal medicine (ref)	–	–	–	–
Family medicine	0.910	.477	0.701	1.180
Other specialty	0.978	.925	0.614	1.557
Years in practice	0.999	.970	0.958	1.043
Patient volume per month	0.998	.040	0.997	1.000
Patient characteristics
Age	1.021	<.001	1.013	1.029
Male sex	1.074	.374	0.917	1.259
Active smoker	0.742	.104	0.517	1.063
Latino	1.785	.067	0.960	3.320
BMI
Underweight	0.768	.654	0.243	2.434
Normal (ref)	–	–	–	–
Overweight	1.189	.230	0.896	1.579
Obese	1.805	<.001	1.375	2.369
Unknown BMI	0.592	.002	0.425	0.826
Index systolic pressure	1.011	.001	1.004	1.017
Index diastolic pressure	1.005	.341	0.994	1.016
Any comorbidity	0.591	<.001	0.461	0.759
Saw PCP and specialist	0.906	.228	0.772	1.063
Visits, No.	1.002	.488	0.997	1.007
Hospitalizations, No.
None (ref)	–	–	–	–
One	1.031	.775	0.838	1.268
More than one	1.263	.075	0.976	1.635
Type of insurance
Medicare/Medicaid (ref)	–	–	–	–
Commercial	0.804	.029	0.661	0.977

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CI, confidence interval; PCP, primary care physician; ref, reference.