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Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2009 Nov-Dec;28(6):1814–1825. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.6.1814

EXHIBIT 4.

Academic-Industry Relationships And Selected Work Activities, 2006

Teaching hours per weeka Research hours per weekb Patient care hours per weekc Admin. hours per weekd Hours of prof. activities per weeke
All respondents 8.0 (±0.04) 24.1 (±0.17) 16.9 (±0.17) 8.3 (±0.07) 3.6 (±0.04)

Any relationship
 No 8.3 (±0.06) 24.0 (±0.22) 16.7 (±0.15) 7.7 (±0.11) 2.8 (±0.04)
 Yes 7.8 (±0.04) 24.1 (±0.17) 17.1(±0.12) 8.8 (±0.09) 4.4 (±0.04)f

Consultant
 No 8.5 (±0.05) 24.0 (±0.17) 16.9 (±0.12) 7.9 (±0.09) 3.1 (±0.04)
 Yes 7.1 (±0.05)f 24.1 (±0.22) 17.0 (±0.15) 9.0 (±0.12} 5.8 (±0.05)f

Paid speaker
 No 8.0 (±0.04) 24.7 (±0.15) 15.6 (±0.11) 8.3 (±0.08) 3.2 (±0.04)
 Yes 7.9 (±0.06) 22.0 (±0.27)f 20.6 (±0.18)f 8.3 (±0.15) 4.8 (±0.06)f

Scientific advisory board
 No 8.2 (±0.04) 23.6 (±0.14) 17.2 (±0.10) 7.9 (±0.08) 3.2 (±0.03)
 Yes 7.3 (±0.06) 26.1 (±0.27)f 15.5 (±0.18) 10.7 (±0.14) 5.5 (±0.06)f

Amount of independent support (percent of research budget)
 None 8.0 (±0.04) 25.3 (±0.19) 15.0 (±0.18) 8.5 (±0.08) 3.5 (±0.04)
 1–33 6.8 (±0.09) 31.8 (±0.29)g 11.9 (±0.24) 9.1 (±0.18) 5.2 (±0.08)g
 34–66 6.5 (±0.10) 24.9 (±0.40) 16.9 (±0.25) 7.4 (±0.29) 23.4 (±0.13)
 67–100 8.2 (±0.10) 16.4 (±0.36)g 27.6 (±0.34)g 7.1 (±0.27) 4.4 (±0.11)

SOURCE: Authors’ analysis of the 2006 Academic-Industry Relationships Faculty Survey.

NOTES: Adjusted by multivariate analysis of variance to control for differences due to academic ranks, years in profession, sex, total research funding, or clinical department Standard errors are in parentheses.

a

We asked, “About how much time do you spend in a typical work week in all teaching activities at your institution: include your instruction of students, residents, interns and fellows, in all clinical, laboratory, and classroom settings.”

b

We asked, “About how much time do you spend in a typical workweek in all research activities at your institution: include all time spent writing proposals, papers, and reports, time spent planning and executing projects, time spent reviewing articles, and any laboratory time.”

c

Calculated for clinical faculty only. We asked, “About how much time do you spend in a typical work week in direct patient care services: include all time you spend directly related to patient care. patient record keeping, patient related office work, travel time connected with seeing patients. Please exclude time on call when not actually working.”

d

We asked, “About how much time do you spend in a typical work week in administrative activities at your institution: include clinical and academic administration, faculty and departmental meeting and departmental meeting and committees.”

e

We asked, “About how much time do you spend in a typical work week in other professional activities outside your institution: include professional society activities, lecturing to outside groups, professionally related service on committees and advisory groups, and travel associated with the above.”

f

p < 0.05 for the comparison with the subgroup with no relationship.

g

p< 0.05 for the comparison with all other subgroups receiving different levels of industry support.