Table 3.

Association of Clinical Inertia With Uncontrolled Hypertension at Last Visit

	Odds Ratio	P Value	95% CI
Clinical inertia during study	2.935	<.001	2.458	3.504
Physician characteristics
Age	1.014	.422	0.980	1.050
Male sex	1.085	.562	0.823	1.430
Physician specialty
Internal medicine (ref)	–	–	–	–
Family medicine	1.140	.160	0.950	1.369
Other specialty	1.040	.844	0.706	1.531
Years in practice	0.982	.289	0.950	1.015
Patient volume per month	0.999	.236	0.998	1.000
Patient characteristics
Age	0.992	.029	0.984	0.999
Male sex	1.269	.004	1.079	1.492
Active smoker	1.179	.387	0.812	1.711
Latino	1.330	.297	0.778	2.274
BMI
Underweight	1.505	.532	0.417	5.424
Normal (ref)	–	–	–	–
Overweight	1.105	.500	0.827	1.475
Obese	1.463	.008	1.103	1.941
Unknown BMI	1.617	.007	1.144	2.286
Index systolic pressure	1.015	<.001	1.009	1.021
Index diastolic pressure	1.002	.732	0.993	1.011
Any comorbidity	0.681	.006	0.518	0.897
Saw PCP and specialist	0.986	.859	0.839	1.158
Visits, No.	1.000	.917	0.995	1.005
Hospitalizations, No.
None (ref)	–	–	–	–
One	0.810	.043	0.660	0.993
More than one	0.772	.042	0.602	0.990
Type of insurance
Medicare/Medicaid (ref)	–	–	–	–
Commercial	0.717	.001	0.589	0.871

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