Doctor's perception of doctor-patient relationships in emergency departments: What roles do gender and ethnicity play?

Table 7 Multivariate analysis of factors influencing doctors' satisfaction with doctor-patient relationship (logistic regression) using three models (M1, M2, M3)

Internal Medicine	M1¹⁾			M2¹⁾			M3²⁾
	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Age	1.01***	1.01	1.02	1.00	0.99	1.01	-#-	-#-	-#-
Gender	1.40*	1.00	1.95	1.35	0.90	2.02	-#-	-#-	-#-
Ethnicity	2.61***	1.70	4.02	0.89	0.52	1.50	-#-	-#-	-#-
Gender * Ethnicity	0.78	0.45	1.36	.90	0.46	1.79	-#-	-#-	-#-
Communication competence	-*-	-*-	-*-	5.28***	4.34	6.43	4.48***	3.34	6.01
Need for emergency treatment ³⁾	-*-	-*-	-*-	0.75***	0.70	0.81	0.75***	0.67	0.83
Doctor's sex⁴⁾	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	0.50**	0.30	0.85
Health insurance⁵⁾	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	3.05**	1.31	7.11
Nagelkerke r²	.03			.41			.33
Gynaecology	M1¹⁾			M2¹⁾			M3²⁾
	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Age	1.03	0.99	1.05	1.01	0.97	1.04	-#-	-#-	-#-
Ethnicity	5.52***	2.50	12.17	1.87	0.71	4.94	-#-	-#-	-#-
Communication competence	-*-	-*-	-*-	4.07***	2.52	6.56	6.22***	2.84	13.62
Need for emergency treatment ³⁾	-*-	-*-	-*-	0.71***	0.60	0.84	0.63***	0.55	0.81
Duration of complaints	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	-*-	1.00	1.00	1.02
Nagelkerke r²	.13			.46			.50

1) Dependent variable: satisfaction with doctor-patient relationship (reference category: "dissatisfied");
2) Stepwise logistic regression, only significant results are shown; ³⁾ Need for emergency treatment as perceived by the physician, ⁴⁾ Reference category: female; ⁵⁾ Reference category: health insurance not paid by the welfare office
OR – Odds Ratio; CI – Confidence Interval
* p ≤ .05; ** p ≤ .01; *** p ≤ .001; -*- not included in the model; -#- included, but non-significant

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