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Table 3 The characteristics associated with a physician declaring they ever decided to forgo initiation of CPR

From: Culture and personal influences on cardiopulmonary resuscitation- results of international survey

Variable

OR (95% CI)

p value

Country:

 Israel vs. rest

0.54a (0.31, 0.97)

0.038

 Indonesia vs. rest

0.57a (0.34, 0.95)

0.033

 Mexico vs. rest

1.84b (1.03, 3.26)

0.038

Age

0.99 (0.95, 1.03)

0.555

Knowledge Test

1.29 (1.04, 1.61)

0.022

Medical Specialty

1.01 (0.67, 1.51)

0.981

Time of last ACLS course1

0.66 (0.42, 1.06)

0.083

Degree of religiosity:

 Secular vs. rest

0.47a (0.29, 0.77)

0.003

 Observant vs. rest

0.39a (0.2, 0.76)

0.005

 Religious/orthodox vs. rest

2.12b (1.30, 3.46)

0.003

Years practicing medicine

1.03 (0.99, 1.08)

0.132

Preference not to take risks2

0.69 (0.45, 1.08)

0.088

  1. Note: 1Time of last ACLS course was compared as follows: never or more than 2 years vs. less than 2 years. 2 Personal preferences to risk taking was compared as follows: disagree vs. don’t know & agree
  2. a,b indicate a pairwise comparison using the Bonferroni correction. The χ2 = 32.52, p < .001, Cox & Snell R Square = .059, − 2 Log likelihood = 593.92
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