Pharmaceutical Company Payments to Physicians

Updated estimates of pharmaceutical company payments to physicians in Vermont.

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Are Pharmaceutical Company Payments Incentivising Malpractice in Japanese Physicians?

Pharmaceutical company payments to physicians: early experiences with disclosure laws in Vermont and Minnesota.

CONTEXT Recent legislation in 5 states and the District of Columbia mandated state disclosure of payments made to physicians by pharmaceutical companies. In 2 of these states, Vermont and Minnesota, payment disclosures are publicly available. OBJECTIVES To determine the accessibility and quality of the data available in Vermont and Minnesota and to describe the prevalence and magnitude of dis...

Public payments to physicians in Ontario adjusted for overhead costs.

We used data collected in the 2010 National Physician Survey and public payment data published in the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences report Payments to Ontario Physicians from Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Sources 1992/93 to 2009/10 to estimate 2009/2010 net physician income from public payments for Ontario physicians by specialty. Incorporating overhead substantially af...

Pharmaceutical Company Sponsorship of Research: A Review

Many studies have shown that pharmaceutical companies' funding of clinical trials is associated with pro-industry results. This article reviews the literature on that association, confirming its existence, and discusses its causes and potential responses. The mechanisms of industry influence are varied, more than is usually acknowledged. It is straightforward to identify a number of distinct ki...