Table 4. Participation in activities and acceptance of gifts from industry stratified by teaching status.
Teaching attendings | Non-teaching attendings | p-value | |
Monthly encounters with pharmaceutical representatives | |||
≥5 encounters | 46 (85.2%) | 20 (55.6%) | 0.004 |
Number of occasions in which medical samples are received in a month | |||
≥5 occasions | 43 (79.6%) | 18 (50%) | <0.001 |
Number of occasions in which promotional material is received in a month | |||
≥5 occasions | 23 (42.6%) | 11 (30.6%) | 0.351 |
Registration to conferences financed by the pharmaceutical industry in a year † | |||
≥1 registrations | 26 (49.1%) | 8 (22.2%) | 0.019 |
One teaching attending did not answer this question.