| To resuscitate or not to resuscitate: a logistic regression analysis of physician-related variables influencing the decision. | |
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PMID: 21900297 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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ObjectiveTo determine whether variables in physicians' backgrounds influenced their decision to forego resuscitating a patient they did not previously know.MethodsQuestionnaire survey of a convenience sample of 204 physicians working in the departments of internal medicine, anaesthesiology and cardiology in 11 hospitals in Israel.ResultsTwenty per cent of the participants had elected to forego resuscitating a patient they did not previously know without additional consultation. Physicians who had more frequently elected to forego resuscitation had practised medicine for more than 5 years (p=0.013), estimated the number of resuscitations they had performed as being higher (p=0.009), and perceived their experience in resuscitation as sufficient (p=0.001). The variable that predicted the outcome of always performing resuscitation in the logistic regression model was less than 5 years of experience in medicine (OR 0.227, 95% CI 0.065 to 0.793; p=0.02).ConclusionPhysicians' level of experience may affect the probability of a patient's receiving resuscitation, whereas the physicians' personal beliefs and values did not seem to affect this outcome. |
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Sharon Einav; Gady Alon; Nechama Kaufman; Rony Braunstein; Sara Carmel; Joseph Varon; Moshe Hersch |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-9-6 |
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Title: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ Volume: - ISSN: 1472-0213 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-9-8 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100963089 Medline TA: Emerg Med J Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel. |
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