Physician participation in quality improvement work- interest and opportunity: a cross-sectional survey

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Table 4 Logistic regression analyses on physicians expressed interest in quality improvement work and active participation in quality improvement work as response variables (0 = no; 1 = yes)

	Are you interested in participating in quality improvement work at your workplace? (n = 1274)								Did you participate actively in quality improvement work during the last year at your work place? (n = 1280)
	Univariate analyses				Multivariate analyses				Univariate analyses				Multivariate analyses
	OR	95% CI Lower—Upper		Sig	OR	95% CI Lower—Upper		Sig	OR	95% CI Lower—Upper		Sig	OR	95% CI Lower—Upper		Sig
Gender
Female	1				1				1				1
Male	1.18	0.86	1.62	0.313	0.99	0.71	1.38	0.946	2.14	1.67	2.73	0.000	1.55	1.19	2.02	0.001
Age in years
≤ 35	1				1				1				1
36–45	0.93	0.63	1.36	0.699	0.78	0.49	1.23	0.279	1.61	1.19	2.17	0.002	0.98	0.68	1.40	0.907
46–55	1.91	1.15	3.16	0.012	1.47	0.78	2.76	0.230	3.73	2.56	5.44	0.000	1.65	1.03	2.65	0.039
56–69	1.66	1.07	2.59	0.025	1.25	0.69	2.24	0.466	3.99	2.82	5.66	0.000	1.58	1.01	2.50	0.047
Job positions
Doctors in hospital management, doctors in administrative position	1				1				1				1
Senior hospital consultants	0.29	0.12	0.76	0.011	0.32	0.12	0.83	0.019	0.17	0.07	0.41	0.000	0.20	0.09	0.47	0.000
Specialty registrars	0.20	0.08	0.51	0.001	0.25	0.09	0.68	0.007	0.05	0.02	0.13	0.000	0.09	0.04	0.22	0.000
GPs and community medical officers	0.39	0.15	1.04	0.061	0.43	0.16	1.15	0.093	0.17	0.07	0.40	0.000	0.20	0.08	0.48	0.000
Specialists in private practice	0.16	0.06	0.51	0.002	0.16	0.05	0.49	0.001	0.23	0.08	0.66	0.006	0.22	0.08	0.64	0.005
Doctors in academia	0.30	0.10	.952	0.041	0.34	0.11	1.08	0.068	0.12	0.04	0.30	0.000	0.14	0.05	0.38	0.000

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