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. 2017 Dec 18;178(3):421–423. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.7445

Table. Industry Payments to Men vs Women California Physicians in Each Specialty Group Adjusted for Years in Practicea.

Payment Relative Likelihood of Men vs Women Physicians by Specialty Group, OR (95% CI)b
Men Surgeons Men Primary Care Men Specialists Men Interventionalists
General payment receipt 1.47 (1.35-1.59) 1.62 (1.54-1.70) 1.12 (1.04-1.21) 2.39 (2.10-2.72)
Ownership interest receipt 15.59 (4.96-49.03) 2.68 (1.10-6.52) 3.61 (1.09-11.92) c
No. of general payments 1.37 (1.28-1.47) 1.39 (1.29-1.50) 1.63 (1.56-1.72) 1.88 (1.66-2.12)
Value of general payments (% difference) 12 (10-14) 12 (11-13) 4 (5-6) 14 (11-17)

Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; ND, no data.

a

Relative likelihood of men physicians receiving payments compared with women physicians within each specialty group (odds ratio [OR]), as well as relative number of payments and percent difference of the value of payments between men and women within each specialty group (incident rate ratio [IRR] and percent difference, respectively). This multivariable analysis also adjusts for physician sex, specialty group, practice spending region, sole proprietorship, years of practice, and the interaction between physician sex and specialty.

b

Reference group for each outcome is women physicians within each specialty group.

c

There is an infinite OR for ownership interests among men interventionalists given 0 women interventionalists of the matched sample from California received ownership interests.