Table 2.
Risk of being concerned to have made an important medical error across the full follow up period (summary measure variable*) by exposure to adverse psychosocial working conditions at baseline (Poisson regression)
| Summary measure of concerns to have made an important medical error | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Model Ia | Model IIb | |||
| RRc | 95% CId | RRc | 95% CId | ||
| ERI model | |||||
| Effort | z-scoree | 0.94 | 0.74, 1.20 | 0.98 | 0.77, 1.25 |
| Reward | z-score | 0.80 | 0.63, 1.03 | 0.86 | 0.66, 1.12 |
| ERI ratio | z-score | 1.09 | 0.84, 1.40 | 1.06 | 0.82, 1.36 |
| MA-specific instrument | |||||
| Workload | z-score | 1.16 | 0.91, 1.47 | 1.18 | 0.93, 1.51 |
| Job control | z-score | 0.94 | 0.74, 1.18 | 1.00 | 0.78, 1.27 |
| Collaboration | z-score | 1.31 | 1.04, 1.64 | 1.26 | 1.00**, 1.57 |
| Gratification | z-score | 1.11 | 0.86, 1.43 | 1.03 | 0.79, 1.35 |
| Practice organization | z-score | 1.21 | 0.95, 1.55 | 1.15 | 0.89, 1.48 |
| Resources | z-score | 0.81 | 0.59, 1.12 | 0.80 | 0.58, 1.10 |
| Leadership behavior | z-score | 1.14 | 0.85, 1.53 | 1.10 | 0.82, 1.48 |
* perceived concerns about having made an important medical error reported for the last three months, 12 months and since baseline merged into a single variable (any affirmative response vs none); effort-reward imbalance questionnaire (ERI) or medical assistant (MA)-specific work stress questionnaire
aunadjusted
badditionally adjusted for age and leadership position
crelative risk (RR) and
d95% confidence intervals (95% CIs)
e a higher score reflects higher agreement to the stressor
** exact p-value = 0.04953