Table 3 Details of clinical appointments/contact with patients (percentage of responders in each profession and results of logistic regression (odds ratio)). Statistically significant difference with p < 0.05, * with Chi squared and # with Fischer’s test. p values for each significant comparison are included in the Additional file 1: Table S3
Professional registration | Odds ratio | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pod | Ortht | Physio | Pod versus orth | Pod versus physio | Physio versus orth | ||
Time for clinical assessment | 0–15 min# | 1.1% | 15.1% | 6.1% | 0.06 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
15–30 min* | 24.4% | 62.4% | 22.4% | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.2 | |
30–45 min* | 42.0% | 18.3% | 24.5% | 3.1 | 1.9 | 1.6 | |
45–60 min* | 26.9% | 3.2% | 30.6% | 11 | 0.8 | 13.2 | |
60+ min# | 4.5% | 1.1% | 10.2% | 4.6 | 0.4 | 10.5 | |
Other# | 1.1% | 0.0% | 6.1% | – | 0.2 | – | |
Type of advice given on FO use | Verbal* | 25.8% | 21.5% | 44.9% | 1.3 | 0.4 | 3 |
Written | 5.6% | 4.3% | 6.1% | – | – | – | |
Both* | 75.9% | 83.9% | 34.7% | 0.6 | 5.9 | 0.1 | |
Online | 0.3% | 0.0% | 2.0% | – | – | – | |
Video | 0.3% | 0.0% | 2.0% | – | – | – | |
Other | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | – | – | – | |
% of FO supplied direct to patients | None* | 60.8% | 58.1% | 77.6% | 1 | 0.2 | 2.7 |
0–30%* | 28.0% | 40.9% | 6.1% | 0.6 | 6.2 | 0.03 | |
31–60% | 7.0% | 1.1% | 14.3% | – | – | – | |
61–100%# | 4.2% | 0.0% | 2.0% | – | 0.5 | – | |
% of patients who receive 2nd pair of FO | None* | 44.8% | 24.7% | 75.5% | 2.5 | 0.3 | 9.4 |
10–30%* | 43.7% | 37.6% | 16.3% | 1.3 | 4 | 0.3 | |
31–70% | 8.1% | 15.1% | 4.1% | – | – | – | |
71–99%* | 2.2% | 16.1% | 2.0% | 0.2 | 1.7 | 0.2 | |
100%# | 1.1% | 5.4% | 2.0% | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
Patient review | Appointment* | 77.6% | 57.0% | 65.3% | 2.6 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
Telephone | 15.7% | 18.3% | 6.1% | – | – | – | |
Online | 2.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | – | – | – | |
Patient request | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | – | – | – | |
Other | 1.4% | 2.2% | 6.1% | – | – | – | |