Association of emergency department nurse and physician work environment agreement on clinician job and patient outcomes

Table 4 Clinician job and patient outcomes predicted means by role and across hospital profiles

	Agree, Favorable Environment (n = 15 hospitals)	Disagree, Less Favorable among Nurses (n = 22 hospitals)	Agree, unfavorable Environment (n = 10 hospitals)
Burnout
Nurse	38.7	54.1^**	64.5^***
Physician	17.3	32.7	43.1
Job Dissatisfaction
Nurse	10.9	23.5^**	43.4^***
Physician	− 1.3^§	11.3^*	31.2^***
Intent to Leave
Nurse	34.1	46.8^*	65.7^**
Physician	4.6	17.3	36.3^**
Poor Care Quality
Nurse	9.9	16.2^***	28.3^***
Physician	0.6	6.9	19.1
Unfavorable patient safety
Nurse	16.7	28.6^**	45.8^***
Physician	0.8	12.8	29.9^*

Expected values represent the percentage of clinicians reporting the outcome
^*Indicates significance level of p <.05
^**Indicates significance level of p <.01
^***Indicates significance level of p <.001
^§The negative value for physicians is due the low rate of job dissatisfaction among physicians working in hospitals in the second cluster. Both the linear and normal assumptions might not be met in this case

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