“The following institutions participated in this study: Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center; Zhejiang Cancer Hospital; Guangdong General Hospital; Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University; Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Hospital; West China Hospital, Sichuan University; Harbin Medical University Cance...

INTRODUCTION The Danish National Hospital Register contains four patient types: full-time inpatients, part-time inpatients, outpatients and emergency ward patients. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether results from comparative hospital register studies depend on which patient types we choose to include in the analysis. METHODOLOGY The hospital register was linked to the cen...

The pharmaceutical industry has been receiving greater scrutiny lately due in large part to the many public and private legal enforcement actions taken against pharmaceutical manufacturers. These enforcement actions, along with legal developments such as the OIG Compliance Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's statutory guidelines for public corporations, the HIPAA...

BACKGROUND The interaction between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry influences physicians' attitudes and prescribing behavior. Although largely studied in the US, this topic has not been well studied in resource-poor settings, where a close relationship between physicians and industry still exists. OBJECTIVE To describe physician interactions with and attitudes towards the pharmaceu...