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Table 4 Multivariable analysis of factors associated with higher SDM. (main analysis with complete case analysis)

From: Prevalence and predictors of shared decision-making in goals-of-care clinician-family meetings for critically ill neurologic patients: a multi-center mixed-methods study

Characteristic

Mean (Std Error) or β (Std Error)

p value

Patient

  

Diagnosis

 

0.379

 Traumatic brain injury

5.54 (0.63)

 

 Acute ischemic stroke

6.77 (0.53)

 

 ASH

5.73 (0.90)

 

 Hemorrhagic stroke

7.69 (0.86)

 

 Other

6.51 (1.143)

 

Clinician

  

Age(a)

 − 0.0648 (0.0520)

0.22

Specialty

 

0.072

 Neurocritical care

6.42 (0.42)

 

 Medical/surgery

7.96 (1.00)

 

 Internal Medicine

6.17 (0.79)

 

 Trauma surgery

7.42 (1.89)

 

 Other

3.15 (1.31)

 

Discordance, hospitalization survival

 

0.029*

 Discordant

7.00 (0.40)

 

 Concordant

5.59 (0.46)

 

Discordance, 6-month independence

 

0.423

 Discordant

6.10 (0.48)

 

 Concordant

6.65 (0.42)

 
  1. (a)Pearson correlation of clinician age with years in practice is 0.90; including both as variables would yield collinearity, thus only age is included in the model
  2. *denotes statistical significance in multivariable model (p < 0.05)