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Table 4 Individual and organizational factors potentially associated with the initiative of contacting vulnerable patients during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020: multivariate multinomial logistic model (total n = 3012 French general practitioners)

From: The challenge for general practitioners to keep in touch with vulnerable patients during the COVID-19 lockdown: an observational study in France

n (%)

Call without criteria-based strategy

n = 1419

Call with criteria-based strategy

n = 808

aOR (95CI)

p value

aOR (95CI)

p value

Women

1.37 (1.13-1.66)

<  0.001

1.41 (1.14-1.75)

0.001

Age group

  < 40 years

0.80 (0.63-1.01)

0.063

0.79 (0.61-1.03)

0.083

 [40-55[

Ref

–

Ref

–

  > 55 years

1.07 (0.84-1.35)

0.60

0.83 (0.63-1.08)

0.16

 Teaching activities

1.00 (0.81-1.22)

0.98

1.94 (1.51-2.48)

<  0.001

 Complementary activity in local hospital

0.81 (0.54-1.23)

0.32

0.97 (0.62-1.50)

0.88

 Complementary activity as nursing home manager

0.93 (0.75-1.15)

0.51

0.81 (0.64-1.03)

0.090

Usual annual activity

  < 3500 encounters per year

0.97 (0.76-1.23)

0.78

1.22 (0.93-1.60)

0.15

 Between 3500 and 6000

Ref

–

Ref

–

  > 6000 encounters per year

0.92 (0.73-1.17)

0.51

0.84 (0.63-1.11)

0.21

Quantitative change of activity (last 7 days)

  < 50%

0.94 (0.73-1.21)

0.63

1.11 (0.83-1.49)

0.48

 50 to 99%

Ref

–

Ref

–

 Same number

0.92 (0.74-1.14)

0.44

0.99 (0.78-1.26)

0.91

 More patients

0.98 (0.67-1.45)

0.93

0.90 (0.57-1.42)

0.65

Number of patients who died due to COVID-19

 None

Ref

–

Ref

–

 1-2 patients

1.10 (0.88-1.36)

0.41

1.19 (0.93-1.53)

0.17

  > 2 patients

1.60 (1.28-1.99)

<  0.001

1.84 (1.43-2.36)

< 0.001

Type and size of practice

 Alone

0.72 (0.55-0.93)

0.014

0.70 (0.51-0.97)

0.030

 Monodisciplinary practice with 2-5 professionals

Ref

–

Ref

–

 Monodisciplinary practice with > 5 professionals

0.73 (0.49-1.07)

0.10

0.98 (0.63-1.51)

0.91

 Multidisciplinary practice with 2-20 professionals

0.88 (0.71-1.08)

0.22

1.33 (1.04-1.69)

0.022

 Multidisciplinary practice with > 20 professionals

0.99 (0.65-1.50)

0.94

1.94 (1.26-2.98)

0.0026

  1. p values < 0.05 are bolded