Table 4.
Funding Characteristic (Mean ± SD) | Academic Medicine (N = 102) | Private Practice (N = 49) | †P-value* |
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General payment value | 103 787.26 ± 325 826.16 | 104 716.57 ± 172 985.34 | .982 |
Royalty or license value | 69 734.31 ± 308 160.58 | 55 581.42 ± 118 824.02 | .686 |
Consulting fee value | 24 901.51 ± 49 203.20 | 28 657.43 ± 68 020.10 | .663 |
Food and beverage payments | 18.11 ± 26.56 | 26.08 ± 29.23 | .110 |
Traveling and lodging payments | 9.79 ± 19.32 | 10.47 ± 17.12 | .828 |
SD = Standard deviation.
*Boldface indicates statistical significance.
†P-value was calculated for each category using a two-sample t-test assuming unequal variance.