TABLE 2.

Physician-related factors associated with colorectal cancer screening recommendations.

Factors	Univariate analysis unadjusted odds ratio (95% CI)	P-value	Multivariate analysis adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)	P-value
Specialty		<0.001		<0.001
Primary care physicians	Reference		Reference
Colorectal surgeons	20.05 (4.30–93.45)		13.18 (2.56–67.86)
Gastroenterologists	11.28 (4.96–25.65)		7.72 (3.08–19.39)
Resident physicians	3.14 (1.69–5.56)		2.22 (1.02–4.84)
General surgeons	2.62 (1.37–5.01)		2.09 (0.97–4.50)
Years of practice		0.056		0.787
<10 years	Reference		Reference
15–20 years	1.64 (1.07–2.52)		1.09 (0.65–1.86)
>20 years	1.34 (0.88–2.03)		0.88 (0.50–1.54)
Number of patients seen per week		0.084		0.296
<20 patients/week	Reference		Reference
21–50 patients/week	1.34 (0.68–2.64)		1.58 (0.77–3.24)
51–100 patients/week	0.92 (0.47–1.80)		1.03 (0.49–2.15)
>100 patients/weeks	0.78 (0.39–1.53)		1.26 (0.58–2.45)
Type of hospital		0.008		0.010
Primary/private clinics	Reference		Reference
Private hospitals	6.67 (3.37–13.18)		4.43 (1.99–9.86)
Academic centers	3.67 (2.09–6.45)		1.93 (0.92–4.06)
Tertiary care centers	2.23 (1.27–3.94)		1.80 (0.93–3.46)
Geographic distribution		0.600		0.764
North	Reference		Reference
Northeast	0.84 (0.43–1.61)		1.34 (0.64–2.79)
East	1.29 (0.50–3.32)		1.04 (0.37–2.94)
Center	1.67 (1.04–2.69)		1.36 (0.79–2.33)
South	0.83 (0.48–1.45)		1.06 (0.57–1.96)

Parameters included for multivariate analysis model: physicians’ specialty, years of practice, number of patients seen per week, type of hospital and geographic distribution.