Healthcare providers’ perspectives on factors influencing their critical care decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international pilot survey

Table 6 Differences in factors influencing critical decision-making and the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on clinicians’ health and interpersonal relations when classified based on current place of residence

	Developing country (n = 64)	Developed country (n = 38)	P value
Patient-related factors
Age influence on treatment	2.75 ± 1.11	3.13 ± 1.04	0.063
Age influence on decision to access ventilator	2.45 ± 1.17	3.00 ± 1.07	0.017
Sex influence on treatment	1.13 ± 0.42	1.29 ± 0.84	0.320
Patient’s family and financial status-related factors
Patient’s financial status influence on treatment plan	1.95 ± 0.97	1.50 ± 0.83	0.001
Family member presence influence on treatment plan	2.08 ± 0.97	1.13 ± 0.67	0.007
Hospital administration-related factors
Time of arrival influence on treatment plan	2.53 ± 1.27	2.08 ± 1.34	0.076
Hospital policies and decisions helpful in treatment plan	2.73 ± 1.14	2.32 ± 1.12	0.064
Hindrance of hospital policies and decisions in treatment plan	1.83 ± 0.95	2.00 ± 0.93	0.247
Clinical research data collection influence on patient treatment	2.13 ± 1.25	2.05 ± 1.27	0.770
Communication-related factors
Social media information influence on treatment plan	1.53 ± 0.69	1.55 ± 0.83	0.918
Language influence on treatment	1.02 ± 0.13	1.16 ± 0.68	0.110
Patient privacy and informed consent
Accurately inform patient’s family regarding patient’s condition	3.55 ± 0.62	3.26 ± 0.64	0.018
Obtain informed consent	3.48 ± 0.71	3.08 ± 0.59	0.001
Give accurate information about risk/benefit of treatment plan	3.53 ± 0.67	3.29 ± 0.69	0.057
Maintain privacy of patient’s information	1.78 ± 0.42	1.89 ± 0.31	0.148
Give priority to patient’s interest over other interests in the treatment plan	4.56 ± 0.79	4.45 ± 0.76	0.286
Effect on health and interpersonal relationships
Clinical work affects professional relationships	2.13 ± 0.92	2.66 ± 1.07	0.014
Clinical work affects family relationships	2.56 ± 1.15	2.87 ± 1.17	0.196
Clinical work affects health	2.69 ± 1.05	2.34 ± 1.15	0.092

Data presented as mean ± SD.