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. 2022 Oct 13;9:875242. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.875242

Table 3B.

Organizational willingness to adopt applications of AI in Screening for eye diseases.

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) Glaucoma Age related macular degeneration (AMD) Cataract
OR 95% CI p -value OR 95% CI p -value OR 95% CI p -value OR 95% CI p -value
Age 1.023 0.999 1.047 0.056 1.020 0.999 1.041 0.066 1.018 0.998 1.039 0.075 1.021 1.002 1.041 0.03
Gender Female Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Male 1.080 0.765 1.525 0.66 1.015 0.743 1.387 0.923 1.023 0.759 1.378 0.883 0.667 0.505 0.882 0.004
Clinical experience Currently in training Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
<20 years 1.237 0.511 2.998 0.637 1.150 0.519 2.550 0.73 1.068 0.485 2.351 0.871 0.724 0.329 1.593 0.422
>20 years 0.972 0.349 2.709 0.957 1.172 0.463 2.971 0.737 1.047 0.419 2.613 0.922 0.748 0.303 1.846 0.529
Geographical region East Asia and Pacific Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Europe and Central Asia 1.669 0.757 3.676 0.204 0.559 0.306 1.021 0.058 1.495 0.758 2.948 0.246 0.444 0.236 0.836 0.012
Latin America & the Caribbean 1.631 0.767 3.470 0.204 1.695 0.899 3.195 0.103 1.691 0.931 3.073 0.085 0.863 0.515 1.446 0.576
Middle east and North Africa 0.515 0.188 1.413 0.198 0.365 0.144 0.922 0.033 0.570 0.224 1.450 0.238 0.644 0.254 1.635 0.355
North America 1.471 0.314 6.889 0.624 0.333 0.106 1.046 0.06 2.095 0.451 9.736 0.346 0.174 0.037 0.812 0.026
South Asia 2.068 1.037 4.125 0.039 1.719 0.998 2.960 0.051 1.207 0.737 1.976 0.455 1.249 0.784 1.992 0.35
Africa 1.180 0.137 10.176 0.88 2.248 0.263 19.214 0.459 0.373 0.080 1.732 0.208 1.597 0.296 8.615 0.586
Income level Resource-constrained Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Resource-abundant 0.729 0.472 1.126 0.154 1.205 0.821 1.769 0.34 1.193 0.825 1.726 0.349 0.755 0.533 1.069 0.113
Self-rated understanding of AI Very poor ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref ref
Below average 0.927 0.235 3.659 0.914 1.201 0.371 3.887 0.759 0.842 0.263 2.694 0.772 1.778 0.594 5.317 0.303
Average 1.151 0.313 4.240 0.832 1.274 0.422 3.846 0.668 1.038 0.344 3.130 0.948 1.224 0.442 3.388 0.698
Above average 0.859 0.234 3.156 0.818 1.090 0.361 3.295 0.878 0.855 0.283 2.582 0.782 1.126 0.406 3.123 0.82
Excellent 0.539 0.137 2.127 0.378 0.658 0.202 2.141 0.486 0.718 0.220 2.340 0.583 1.129 0.376 3.389 0.828

*Wherein “ref” denotes the reference category.

The color values are added to draw attention of readers to analyses for which p-value was < 0.05.