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Table 3 Generalized linear regression of physician-level characteristics; results are odds ratios associated with the likelihood of physician participation

From: Constructing within and between hospital physician social networks for modeling physician research participation

 

Full fixed effects model

Reduced fixed effects model

 Term

OR (95% CI)

p-value

OR (95% CI)

p-value

Age\(^\dagger\)

0.96 (0.93, 0.99)

0.01

0.97 (0.93, 0.99)

0.01

AgeObserved\(^\ddagger\)

8.22 (1.79, 37.8)

0.01

6.54 (1.48, 28.9)

0.01

No. Hospitals

1.48 (1.16, 1.88)

<0.01

1.50 (1.18, 1.91)

<0.01

Patient Encounters

1.00 (1.00, 1.00)

0.05

-

-

Years with physician organization

1.23 (0.88, 1.73)

0.23

1.52 (1.14, 2.01)

<0.01

  1. \(^\dagger\) The effect of age is estimated for the subgroup of physicians whose age is observed; this is enabled by representing Age in the model as Age \(\times\) AgeObserved
  2. \(^\ddagger\) AgeObserved is the indicator variable equal to 1 if age is observed and 0 otherwise