General practitioners’ views and preferences about quality improvement feedback in preventive care: a cross-sectional study in Switzerland and France

Table 4 Univariate and adjusted associations of GPs’ characteristics and extent of preventive practice with their perceptions of the usefulness of feedback (very useful or indispensable vs. rather useful, little useful, or useless)

Characteristics				Multivariate
Characteristics	OR	95% CI	p value	Adjusted OR	Adjusted 95% CI	p value
Gender
Male	1
Female	1.372	0.955–1.973	0.086	^a	^a	^a
Age group (years)
<35	1			1
35–44	0.337	0.073–1.554	0.013	0.286	0.049–1.661	0.018
45–54	0.232	0.051–1.057		0.222	0.039–1.261
55–64	0.181	0.040–0.813		0.201	0.033–1.215
>64	0.221	0.045–1.069		0.247	0.036–1.687
Number of half days worked per week
≤8	1
>8	0.960	0.674–1.367	0.820	^a	^a	^a
Number of working years in the current practice
≤18	1
>18	0.634	0.444–0.906	0.012	^a	^a	^a
Location of the practice
France	1
Switzerland	1.399	0.956–2.046	0.081	^a	^a	^a
Reported extent of preventive practice
Commonly applies <10 preventive practices	1			1
Commonly applies ≥10 preventive practices	1.865	1.310–2.655	<0.001	1.764	1.208–2.574	0.002