Physician-level variation in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction and the use of angiography among Veterans with elevated troponin

Table 3 Logistic regression of variables associated with use of cardiac catheterization

Variable	β	S.E.	Wald	P	OR	95 % CI
Chest Pain	2.152	0.257	70.079	<0.0001	8.60	5.20	14.23
Non-VA physician	1.493	0.543	7.563	0.006	4.45	1.54	12.89
TIMI > 2	1.185	0.352	11.317	0.001	3.27	1.64	6.52
Smoker	0.854	0.334	6.543	0.011	2.35	1.22	4.52
Abnormal ECG	0.634	0.259	5.986	0.014	1.89	1.13	3.13
Dyspnea	0.582	0.290	4.028	0.045	1.79	1.01	3.16
1st troponin level	0.539	0.185	8.441	0.004	1.71	1.19	2.47
Age (by year)	−0.031	0.011	8.780	0.003	0.97	0.95	0.99
Creatinine	−0.352	0.097	13.276	<0.0001	0.70	0.58	0.85
Physician 2	−0.590	0.248	5.654	0.017	0.56	0.34	0.90
Constant	−0.500	0.801	0.389	0.533	0.607

CI Confidence interval, ECG Electrocardiogram, OR Odds ratio, SE Standard error, TIMI Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction

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