Table 1. Physician characteristics classified by proper assessment of overstated conclusion.
| Category | Characteristics | Proper† (n = 159) |
Not proper‡ (n = 127) |
p-value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex, n (%) | Male | 133 | (83.6) | 110 | (86.6) | 0.51 |
| Postgraduate year, mean (SD) | 15.8 | (9.5) | 19.4 | (8.6) | 0.001 | |
| Workplace, n (%) | Clinic | 42 | (26.4) | 38 | (29.9) | 0.6 |
| Board certification§, n (%) | 138 | (86.8) | 121 | (95.3) | 0.015 | |
| Doctorate grade, n (%) | 48 | (30.2) | 45 | (35.4) | 0.38 | |
| PI||, n (%) | 71 | (44.7) | 35 | (27.6) | 0.003 | |
| Information resource, n (%) | Pharmacological company§ | 10 | (6.3) | 14 | (11.0) | 0.2 |
| EBM workshop**, n (%) | 107 | (67.3) | 79 | (62.2) | 0.38 | |
| Abstract ≥5††, n (%) | 92 | (57.9) | 82 | (64.6) | 0.27 |
*p-value for Fisher’s Exact test
†Rating less than 5 for the validity of overstated abstract conclusion on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being not at all and 10 being very likely
‡Rating 5 or more for the validity of overstated abstract conclusion on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being not at all and 10 being very likely
§Any board certification
||Clinical research experience as a principal investigator
¶Access to research information (only from pharmacological company)
**Ever attended an evidence based medicine workshop
††Reading 5 or more abstracts in the last month
SD = Standardized deviation, PI = Principal investigator, EBM = Evidence based medicine