Clinical decision-making: physicians' preferences and experiences

BMC Primary Care

Table 8 Odds ratios for physicians perceiving that they often or sometimes have enough time to spend with patients in visits

	Odds Ratios	95% Confidence Intervals
*Type of specialty* ¹
Primary care	1.00
Medical specialty	0.85	0.54 – 1.34
Surgical specialty	2.11	1.12 – 3.96
*% Patients with annual incomes < $20,000*
30% or less	1.00
Over 30%	0.49	0.32 – 0.76
*Preferred role in clinical decision-making* ²
Paternalism	1.00
Shared decision-making	1.83	1.04 – 3.25
Consumerism	1.03	0.48 – 2.22
*Physician perceptions of frequency of encouraging patients to look for information*.
Often/Sometimes	1.00
Hardly ever/Never	2.73	1.49 – 4.98

¹Physicians in surgical specialties were also more likely to perceive themselves as often or sometimes having enough time when compared with physicians in medical specialties (OR 2.5; 95% CI 1.3 – 4.6)
²Physicians who preferred shared decision-making were non-significantly more likely to perceive they often or sometimes spent enough time with patients in visits compared to physicians who preferred consumerism (OR 1.78; 95% CI 0.96 – 3.28).

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