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

Table 3 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 terminal stage

	OR	p-value	95% CI
Group effect
Senior citizens (reference)	1
Family caregivers	1.4	0.157	0.9 – 2.3
Nurses	3.0	0.003	1.5 – 6.0
Physicians	28.2	< 0.001	6.0 – 132.5
Age	1.0	0.260	0.97 – 1.01
Gender
Male (reference)	1
Female	1.2	0.513	0.8 – 1.8
Religiosity	0.93	0.004	0.9 – 1.0
Have accompanied a dying relative or friend through the dying process	0.86	0.475	0.6 – 1.3
Have themselves completed an advance directive	1.4	0.124	0.9 – 2.1
Find it acceptable (somewhat or totally) to extend medical assistance in dying to the person with dementia, at the terminal stage
No (reference)	1
Yes	3.2	< 0.001	1.9 – 5.4
Find it acceptable (somewhat or totally) to deeply sedate the person with dementia, at the terminal stage
No (reference)	1
Yes	5.2	< 0.001	3.4 – 7.9

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