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Table 4 Sensitivity Analysis a Associations between non-US citizen status (excluding “Permanent Resident” and “Permanent US Resident) and PA program matriculation by year

From: PA applicant U.S. citizenship status and likelihood of program matriculation

 

Unadjusted

Adjusted b

Year

Estimate

OR

95% CI

P

Estimate

OR

95% CI

P

2012

0.49

0.41

0.58

<.001

0.62

0.50

0.77

<.0001

2014

0.52

0.37

0.74

<.001

0.58

0.39

0.88

0.001

2016

0.51

0.37

0.69

<.001

0.56

0.38

0.81

<.001

2018

0.54

0.42

0.71

<.001

0.75

0.54

1.04

0.088

2020

0.44

0.32

0.60

<.001

0.54

0.38

0.77

0.001

  1. CASPA Centralized application service for physician assistants, OR Odd ratio, CI Confidence interval
  2. aConsidered ‘Permanent Resident’, ‘Permanent U.S. Resident’ same as US citizens
  3. bAdjusted for age at application submission, English as second language, binary gender, race/ethnicity, application number, hours of patient experience, and cumulative undergraduate total grade point average
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