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Table 3 Provider and practice characteristics associated with accepting new patients requiring opioids

From: Accepting new patients who require opioids into family practice: results from the MAAP-NS census survey study

 

Unadjusted OR (95% CI), p

Adjusted OR (95% CI), p

Provider Characteristic

 Female FP

2.57 (1.52, 4.32) ***

1.49 (0.80, 2.77)

 FP Age

0.96 (0.93, 0.98) **

 Years in Practice

0.95 (0.92, 0.97) ***

0.96 (0.93, 0.99) **

 Hours of Patient Care/Week

1.03 (1.01, 1.05) *

1.02 (0.99, 1.04)

Practice Characteristic

 Number of FPs in Practice

1.37 (1.20, 1.57) ***

1.19 (1.00, 1.42) *

 Nurse in Practice

2.90 (1.63, 5.17) ***

1.15 (1.11, 5.04) *

 Nurse Practitioner in Practice

3.33 (1.45, 7.64) **

1.61 (0.61, 4.29)

 Psychiatrist/Psychologist in Practice

11.72 (2.79, 49.30) **

3.10 (0.66, 14.66)

  1. Lack of variability in the measures “Had a Social Worker in Practice” and “Had a Pharmacist in Practice” prevented their entry into the logistic regression model. “FP Age omitted” due to multicollinearity with “Years in Practice”
  2. ***p < 0.001
  3. ** p < 0.01
  4. * p < 0.05