Table 3 Univariate associations of SDM score with patient, surrogate, and clinician characteristics (adjusted for random center effect, except where noted)
Characteristic | Mean (Std Error) or β (Std Error) | p value |
|---|---|---|
Patient | ||
Age in years | − 0.005 (0.02) | 0.763 |
Sex | 0.472 | |
Female | 6.06 (0.59) | |
Male | 6.44 (0.57) | |
Race/ethnicity | 0.409 | |
Non-Hispanic White | 6.15 (0.49) | |
Hispanic | 7.55 (1.01) | |
Asian | 7.09 (0.98) | |
Black | 6.12 (1.62) | |
Diagnosis | 0.188 | |
Traumatic brain injury | 5.63 (0.57) | |
Acute ischemic stroke | 6.77 (0.58) | |
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage | 6.47 (0.77) | |
Intracerebral hemorrhage | 7.69 (0.79) | |
Other | 5.89 (0.93) | |
Surrogate | ||
Education | 0.728 | |
≤ high school | 6.16 (0.69) | |
Any college | 6.16 (0.63) | |
Post-college | 6.79 (0.84) | |
Conflict with clinical team (a) | 0.312 | |
1 | 6.31 (0.39) | |
2 | 7.35 (0.56) | |
3–4 | 6.33 (1.33) | |
Trust in clinical team | 0.759 | |
1 | 6.73 (0.84) | |
2 | 5.94 (1.20) | |
3 | 6.18 (0.72) | |
4 | 6.88 (0.76) | |
Clinician | ||
Age | − 0.08 (0.03) | 0.012 |
Years in practice | − 0.07 (0.03) | 0.019 |
Attending | 0.841 | |
No | 6.36 (0.69) | |
Yes | 6.23 (0.56) | |
Sex | 0.566 | |
Female | 6.48 (0.61) | |
Male | 6.16 (0.53) | |
Race/ethnicity | 0.772 | |
Non-Hispanic White | 6.39 (0.49) | |
Hispanic | 6.42 (1.38) | |
Asian | 5.78 (0.87) | |
Black | 5.07 (1.67) | |
Specialty | 0.034 | |
Neurocritical care | 6.22 (0.78) | |
Medical/surgery critical care | 7.69 (0.82) | |
Internal Medicine | 6.29 (0.85) | |
Trauma surgery | 3.62 (1.62) | |
Other | 4.77 (0.76) | |
Perception of conflict with family | 0.925 | |
1 | 6.15 (0.52) | |
2 | 6.16 (0.78) | |
3 | 6.74 (0.89) | |
4 | 6.23 (1.38) | |
Clinician-surrogate prognostic discordance | ||
Survival of hospitalization (b) | 0.028 | |
Discordant | 6.90 (0.61) | |
Concordant | 5.48 (0.66) | |
6-month independence (c) | 0.156 | |
Discordant | 5.84 (0.54) | |
Concordant | 6.78 (0.49) |