Table 4

Prevalence of reporting conflicts with colleagues and patients, stratified by obstetrician-gynecologists' demographic and professional characteristics

	Conflict with colleagues			Conflict with patients
Demographic and Professional Characteristics	Bivariate		Multivariate^*	Bivariate		Multivariate^*
Demographic and Professional Characteristics	%	p(χ²)	OR (95% CI)	%	p(χ²)	OR (95% CI)
All Physicians	59			61
Age
25–35 years	62	0.89	Referent	67	0.19	Referent
36–45 years	60		1.0 (0.6 to 1.7)	60		1.0 (0.6 to 1.6)
46–55 years	59		0.9 (0.5 to 1.6)	63		1.2 (0.7 to 2.0)
56–65 years	58		0.9 (0.5 to 1.6)	55		1.0 (0.6 to 1.8)
Gender
Male	61	0.38	Referent	57	0.004	Referent
Female	58		0.8 (0.6 to 1.1)	66		1.5 (1.1 to 2.1)^‡
Race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	62	0.10	Referent	63	0.02	Referent
Black, non-Hispanic	53		0.9 (0.5 to 1.5)	49		0.6 (0.4 to 1.0)
Asian	53		1.1 (0.7 to 1.8)	57		1.1 (0.7 to 1.8)
Hispanic	49		0.8 (0.4 to 1.5)	49		0.8 (0.4 to 1.4)
Other	56		1.0 (0.3 to 3.8)	69		1.3 (0.5 to 3.3)
Immigration history
Born in the USA	62	<0.001	Referent	64	<0.001	Referent
Immigrated to USA	47		0.5 (0.4 to 0.8)^‡	47		0.5 (0.4 to 0.8)^‡
Religiously affiliated practice
No	57	0.04	Referent	61	0.69	Referent
Yes	66		1.4 (1.0 to 1.9)	60		0.9 (0.6 to 1.3)
Self-perceived empathy
High	58	0.27	Referent	58	0.04	Referent
Low	61		1.2 (0.9 to 1.6)	65		1.4 (1.0 to 1.9)^† ^§
Practice size (# of colleagues)
0–2	54	0.07	Referent	N/A
3–5	58		1.0 (0.7 to 1.5)
>5	63		1.3 (0.9 to 1.9)
Total patient workload
0–70 patients seen weekly	N/A			55	0.006	Referent
71–100				67		1.7 (1.2 to 2.5)^‡
>100				60		1.2 (0.9 to 1.7)

Table presents survey-design adjusted population estimates for US obstetrician-gynecologists.
↵* Multivariate results present odds ratios (95% CI) adjusted for all the variables listed above, except that practice size was only included in analyses involving conflict with colleagues, while total patient workload was only included in analyses involving conflict with patients.
↵† p<0.05.
↵‡ p<0.01.
↵§ p=0.09.