Table 6 |
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Who to disclose Medical Error According to Public Preference and Perception of Current Practice per Demographic Characteristics |
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Statement* |
Overall P a |
At-fault-physician vs. other choices b |
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Any employee |
Any physician |
At-fault physician |
Manager of At-fault-physician |
Medical director |
Chief executive director |
P |
OR (95% CI) |
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Personal Preference |
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Males [399] |
7 (2) |
65 (16) |
191 (48) |
77 (19) |
36 (9) |
23 (6) |
0.04 |
< 0.001 |
0.40 |
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Females** [468] |
9 (2) |
40 (9) |
327 (70) |
56 (12) |
18 (4) |
18 (4) |
(0.30-0.52) |
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Saudis [778] |
14 (2) |
92 (12) |
468 (60) |
117(15) |
53 (7) |
34 (4) |
0.74 |
0.50 |
1.18 |
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Non-Saudi Arabs** [89] |
2 (2) |
13 (15) |
50 (56) |
16 (18) |
1 (1) |
7 (8) |
(0.76-1.83) |
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Patients [327] |
8 (2) |
44 (14) |
202 (62) |
48 (15) |
16 (5) |
9 (3) |
0.02 |
0.34 |
1.15 |
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Healthy** [540] |
8 (2) |
61 (11) |
316 (59) |
85 (16) |
38 (7) |
32 (6) |
(0.87-1.52) |
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≥College [534] |
11 (2) |
68 (13) |
310 (58) |
95 (18) |
32 (6) |
18 (3) |
0.10 |
0.13 |
0.61 |
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(0.32-1.16) |
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School [286] |
3 (1) |
31 (11) |
176 (62) |
34 (12) |
21 (7) |
21 (7) |
0.30 |
0.70 |
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(0.36-1.37) |
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Illiterate** [46] |
2 (4) |
6 (13) |
32 (70) |
4 (9) |
1 (2) |
1 (2) |
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Perception of Current Practice |
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Males [405) |
54 (13) |
118 (29) |
104 (26) |
76 (19) |
27 (7) |
26 (6) |
0.50 |
< 0.001 |
0.45 |
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Females** [353] |
20 (6) |
120 (34) |
154 (43) |
23 (7) |
16 (5) |
20 (6) |
(0.33-0.61) |
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Saudis [674] |
66 (10) |
215 (32) |
229 (34) |
87 (13) |
40 (6) |
37 (6) |
0.32 |
0.92 |
0.98 |
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Non-Saudi Arabs** [84] |
8 (10) |
23 (27) |
29 (35) |
12 (14) |
3 (4) |
9 (11) |
(0.61-1.57) |
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Patients [270] |
14 (5) |
91 (34) |
102 (38) |
38 (14) |
15 (6) |
10 (4) |
0.48 |
0.11 |
1.29 |
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Healthy** [488] |
60 (12) |
147 (30) |
156 (32) |
61 (13) |
28 (6) |
36 (7) |
(0.95-1.76) |
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≥College [478] |
58 (12) |
158 (33) |
154 (32) |
61 (13) |
25 (5) |
22 (5) |
0.002 |
0.42 |
0.60 |
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(0.27-1.36) |
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School [254] |
15 (6) |
70 (28) |
93 (37) |
36 (14) |
17 (7) |
23 (9) |
0.47 |
0.74 |
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(0.32-1.69) |
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Illiterate** [25] |
1 (4) |
10 (40) |
11 (44) |
1 (4) |
1 (4) |
1 (4) |
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*"Any employee", "any physician", "at-fault-physician", "manager of at-fault-physician", "medical director", and "chief executive director" correspond, respectively, to statements 1 to 6 in Table 1(b). Data indicate the number (%) of respondents who chose the corresponding statement. Numbers between [·] represent the number of responses from participants with the indicated characteristic. aMann-Whitney test or Kruskal-Wallis test (for educational status). bMantel-Haenszel common odds ratio estimate. ** Reference group in the Mantel-Haenszel estimate. Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding. |
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Hammami et al. BMC Medical Ethics 2010 11:17 doi:10.1186/1472-6939-11-17 |
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