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Predictors of healthcare workers' self-reported willingness to accept smallpox immunization, results of multivariate analysis |
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| Odds ratio* (95% CI) |
p-value |
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| Perceived risk of a smallpox attack in U.S. within 2 years |
<0.0001 |
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| High/Intermediate |
3.2 (2.4, 4.2) |
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| Low/Next to zero |
Ref |
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| Can't guess |
2.7 (1.7, 4.1) |
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| Region |
0.13 |
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| Northeast |
Ref |
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| Mid-Atlantic & Southeast |
1.4 (1.0, 2.0) |
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| Midwest & West |
1.5 (1.0, 2.3) |
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| Main work area |
0.16 |
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| Emergency Department or ED consult |
1.3 (1.0,1.7) |
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| Intensive Care Unit or ICU consult |
Ref |
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| Other/none specified |
1.4 (0.9, 2.2) |
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| Profession |
0.76 |
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| Physician |
Ref |
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| Non-physician clinician |
1.1 (0.8, 1.6) |
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| Other/none specified |
0.9 (0.6, 1.5) |
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| Age |
0.07 |
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| Up to 29 |
1.5 (0.9, 2.4) |
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| 30–39 |
1.1 (0.7, 1.6) |
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| 40–49 |
1.0 (0.7, 1.5) |
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| 50 or over |
Ref |
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| Gender |
<0.001 |
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| Female |
Ref |
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| Male |
1.4 (1.1, 2.0) |
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| Ever vaccinated |
0.046 |
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| Yes |
1.5 (1.0, 2.1) |
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| No |
Ref |
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| Not sure |
1.1 (0.7, 1.7) |
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| Informed |
<0.001 |
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| Very well |
2.0 (1.1, 3.7) |
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| Fairly well |
1.5 (0.9, 2.4) |
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| Not well |
1.0 (0.6, 1.7) |
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| Not at all |
Ref |
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* adjusted for clustering within hospital and variation in the number of responses per hospital | ||
Yih et al. BMC Public Health 2003 3:20 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-3-20 |
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