Monitoring quality in Israeli primary care: The primary care physicians' perspective

Table 5 Logistic regressions of selected outcome variables on physicians' personal and professional characteristics*

	Excessive managerial pressure	Excessive workload	Excessive competition	Contributes substantially to quality	Supports continuation
Age (Reference group: Age < 45)
45–60	1.0	1.6	1.1	1.3	0.9
≥61	1.4	1.5	0.6	0.8	0.5
Born in Israel	0.8	0.9	2.1	1.0	1.8
Jewish	0.5	0.5	1.1	1.0	1.4
Male	0.7	0.6	1.1	1.2	1.3
Board certification (Reference group: Not board certified)
Family physician	0.6	0.6	1.0	0.9	1.2
Internist and other	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.8	0.6
Work primarily as specialist	6.1	2.2	0.9	0.7	0.8
Mode of employment (Reference group: Independent only)
Salaried only	1.3	0.9	1.3	0.7	1.2
Salaried and independent	1.5	0.7	1.2	1.5	1.4
Response mode (Reference group: Telephone)
Regular mail	0.4	0.4	0.5	1.2	1.1
E-mail	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.9	0.6
Cox & Snell R²	0.17	0.12	0.18	0.18	0.21
Nagelkerke R²	0.24	0.16	0.25	0.25	0.28
N (unweighted)	556	552	557	554	557

*The set of independent variables also included the main health plan with which the physician worked. However, the coefficients of the health plan variables are not presented here, in keeping with the health plans' conditions for participating in the study.
Coefficients in bold were significant at the .05 level.

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