Research Capacity at Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Centers in China: A Survey of Clinical Investigators

Table 3

Multivariate analysis of publications of TCM clinical investigators.

Implicit factors	value	Odds ratio	% 95 CI
Education	0.019
Doctor’s degree	0.032	16.000	[1.267, 201.798]
Master’s degree	0.426	2.543	[0.255, 25.327]
Bachelor’s degree	0.423	2.630	[0.247, 28.047]
College degree	—	—	—
Professional title/current role	0.025
Professor	0.026	2.480	[1.114, 5.519]
Associate professor	0.031	4.217	[1.136, 15.645]
Intermediate researcher	0.558	1.714	[0.283, 10.387]
Assistant researcher	—	—	—
Work experience (years)	0.012
20	0.028	2.809	[1.120, 7.048]
15–19	0.045	7.911	[1.046, 59.801]
10–14	0.082	3.697	[0.846, 16.168]
5–9	0.026	3.439	[1.163, 10.169]
5	—	—	—
Status of being involved in project	0.045
National level	0.998	4616953.670	—
Provincial/ministerial level	0.131	1.385	[0.908, 2.111]
Municipal level	0.994	22683641.660	—
Hospital/college level	0.004	2.473	[1.321, 4.496]
None	—	—	—
Number of professional articles read each month	0.000
20	0.998	807737421.426	—
11–20	0.0018	150008.500	—
6–10	0.000	45.000	[5.621, 360.287]
12–5	0.000	5.167	[2.353, 11.346]
1	—	—	—
Methodology study	0.193
Trained	0.193	1.539	[0.804, 2.947]
Not trained	—	—	—