Fig. 3

Mixed logistic regression analysis for pros/cons about prioritizing patients or facilities in each dataset. Compared to the acceptance of prioritization in terms of medical rationale, economical aspects was consistently less likely to cause acceptance towards prioritizing patients (A, approximately 0.4–0.5 of OR) across the examined surveys, and addressing vulnerable individuals was the reason that consistently accompanied least likelihood to accept for prioritizing patients (A, approximately 0.2 of OR). Meanwhile, compared to the acceptance of prioritization in terms of medical rationale, addressing vulnerable people or the impact on patients’ lives showed significantly lowered likelihood to accept for prioritizing facilities (B) across the examined surveys consistently, while the economical aspects did not show significant increase or decrease in OR as a focus to accept for facility prioritization (i.e., 95%CI overlapping with the OR = 1). Abbreviations: J-TRC, Japanese trial-ready cohort; CI, confidence interval