Table 4.
Importance Scores for the Five Most Important Resident Characteristics by Time Pressure and Clinician Characteristics (NClinicians = 867)
| Characteristic | Evidence Category |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urinalysis | Body Temperature | Lower Urinary Tract Status | Physical Examination | Antibiotic Request | All Others | p | |
| Total | 31.7% | 16.9% | 16.7% | 14.7% | 6.8% | 13.1% | |
| Time Pressure, (0,1) | 0.61 | ||||||
| Self-Paced | 32.4% | 17.1% | 16.5% | 14.5% | 6.9% | 12.6% | |
| Deliberative | 30.6% | 16.5% | 16.7% | 14.6% | 6.6% | 15.1% | |
| Clinician Characteristics, (0,1) | |||||||
| Days in NH | <.001 | ||||||
| 0–1 | 29.9% | 16.1% | 16.8% | 14.3% | 7.4% | 15.4% | |
| >1 | 32.5% | 17.3% | 16.4% | 14.8% | 6.5% | 12.6% | |
| Long-term care only | <.001 | ||||||
| Yes | 28.6% | 14.0% | 12.5% | 11.4% | 10.6% | 23.0% | |
| No | 27.5% | 16.3% | 14.9% | 15.5% | 8.8% | 17.0% | |
| Degree type | <.001 | ||||||
| MD, DO | 30.2% | 15.8% | 17.1% | 13.9% | 7.0% | 16.1% | |
| NP, PA | 31.7% | 17.5% | 14.9% | 14.7% | 7.8% | 13.4% | |
| Sub-specialty | .009 | ||||||
| Geriatric | 24.6% | 14.4% | 15.7% | 12.1% | 9.3% | 23.7% | |
| Other | 32.0% | 17.1% | 16.6% | 14.6% | 6.6% | 13.0% | |
| Years since degree | .12 | ||||||
| > Mean (20.2 years) | 30.3% | 15.6% | 17.9% | 13.7% | 7.6% | 14.9% | |
| ≤ Mean | 31.2% | 17.2% | 14.7% | 14.7% | 6.8% | 15.3% | |
Note. Importance scores for response “I would prescribe for a UTI.”. p-value tests structure of utilities of models (0, 1) against total model using Swait-Louviere likelihood ratio test; two-sided.