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. 2021 Jan 27;36(10):3257–3260. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06612-z

Table 2.

Multilevel Binary Logistic Regression Analysis of Any and High-Value Industry Payments to Fellows

Any industry payment Industry payment > $1000
Adjusted OR P value Adjusted OR P value
Sex
  Female 1 [Reference] 1 [Reference]
  Male 1.31 (1.06–1.63) 0.01 1.49 (1.04–2.14) 0.03
Program size
  1 to 4 fellows 1 [Reference] 1 [Reference]
  5 or more fellows 0.86 (0.66–1.12) 0.27 0.77 (0.51–1.18) 0.23
Industry payments to PD
  No 1 [Reference] 1 [Reference]
  Yes 2.10 (1.50–2.95) <0.001 3.38 (1.50–7.59) <0.001
Top research internal medicine programa
  No 1 [Reference] 1 [Reference]
  Yes 0.48 (0.32–0.71) <0.001 1.09 (0.57–2.09) 0.79
American Medical Student Association Conflict of Interest Score
  C or lower 1 [Reference] 1 [Reference]
  B 1.22 (0.65–2.31) 0.53 0.65 (0.28–1.49) 0.31
  A 0.97 (0.49–1.89) 0.92 0.39 (0.15–1.02) 0.06
Specialty
  Rheumatology 1 [Reference] 1 [Reference]
  Allergy & immunology 1.05 (0.55–2.03) 0.88 1.05 (0.29–3.72) 0.94
  Cardiology 3.63 (2.17–6.08) <0.001 6.44 (2.61–15.87) <0.001
  Endocrinology 1.34 (0.79–2.26) 0.28 0.66 (0.21–2.05) 0.48
  Gastroenterology 3.40 (2.05–5.64) <0.001 1.79 (0.73–4.42) 0.20
  Infectious disease 0.48 (0.28–0.81) 0.01 0.16 (0.03–0.81) 0.03
  Hematology & oncology 1.49 (0.91–2.46) 0.12 2.19 (0.86–5.56) 0.10
  Pulmonology & critical care 1.03 (0.63–1.69) 0.89 1.43 (0.55–3.69) 0.46
  Nephrology 0.89 (0.54–1.46) 0.63 0.24 (0.06–0.99) .05

aTop research internal medicine residency programs are defined as the top 15 ranked institutions by the Doximity research output metric which is determined by the h-index and number of grants awarded to recent fellow alumni