Hidden bedside rationing in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional survey among physicians in internal medicine

Table 2 Ordinal Regression Analysis on Physician Characteristics Affecting Bedside Rationing

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
	OR	95% CI	p	OR	95% CI	p
Years Since Graduation (per 10 years)	1.1	1.0–1.2	0.10	0.9	0.6–1.3	0.49
Residency	10.5	8.1–13.5	< 0.001	1.8	0.7–4.4	0.37
Academic Hospital	20.5	15.4–27.3	< 0.001	17.0	6.1–47.9	< 0.001
Employment Mode
Private Practice	1.0	(ref)		1.0	(ref)
Salaried	0.8	0.6–1.1	0.13	0.6	0.2–1.2	0.16
In Training	0.9	0.7–1.1	0.26	0.8	0.3–2.0	0.58

Dependent variable is response to item C in the survey on a five-point Likert scale ranging from ‘never’ (i.e. no bedside rationing) to ‘always’ (i.e. bedside rationing). Variables are expressed as odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals. Statistically significant effects are expressed in bold

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