Attitudes toward withholding antibiotics from people with dementia lacking decisional capacity: findings from a survey of Canadian stakeholders

Table 2 Multivariable GEE results from investigating factors related to finding it acceptable (somewhat or totally) to withhold antibiotics from a person with dementia who lacks decisional capacity, at the advanced stage

	OR	p-value	95% CI
Group effect
Senior citizens (reference)	1
Family caregivers	0.98	0.914	0.6 – 1.5
Nurses	1.6	0.115	0.9 – 2.8
Physicians	15.1	< 0.001	4.9 – 46.4
Age	1.0	0.858	0.98 – 1.02
Gender
Male (reference)	1
Female	1.5	0.017	1.1 – 2.2
Religiosity	0.95	0.032	0.9 – 1.0
Have accompanied a dying relative or friend through the dying process	1.1	0.515	0.8 – 1.6
Have themselves completed an advance directive	1.3	0.153	0.9 – 1.8
Find it acceptable (somewhat or totally) to extend medical assistance in dying to the person with dementia, at the advanced stage
No (reference)	1
Yes	3.5	< 0.001	2.5 – 5.0

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