Comparison of resident and glaucoma faculty practice patterns in the care of open-angle glaucoma

BMC Ophthalmology

Table 3 Patient characteristics predicting performance of care measures in individuals treated by resident physicians

		No documented gonioscopy	No CCT documentation	No target IOP recorded	No Fam Hx documented	No VF in last year	No glaucoma imaging in last 5 years
Patient characteristic	Interval	Odds ratio	Odds ratio	Odds ratio	Odds ratio	Odds ratio	Odds ratio
Age	5 years older	1.18	1.20*	0.93	1.27	1.06	0.94
Gender	Female vs. Male	0.76	0.97	0.91	0.92	1.27	0.70
Race	AA vs. not AA	5.71	1.07	0.76	2.54	4.54	0.87
Diagnosis	Suspect vs. Glaucoma	0.77	1.35	0.60	0.22	0.51	0.53
Glaucoma medicines	1 more medication	1.23	1.08	0.65	1.13	1.06	1.53**
VF MD	5 dB worse in better eye	0.91	0.92	1.06	0.68**	1.13	0.86
Visual acuity, logMAR	0.1 worse in better eye	1.14**	1.19*	1.11*	1.14**	1.17**	1.08

CCT = central corneal thickness; IOP = intraocular pressure; Fam Hx = Family History; VF = visual field; AA = African American; MD = mean deviation; dB = decibel; logMAR = logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution;
p values test the importance of each patient characteristic on the given outcomes (care measures) within resident-treated patients, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.

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