ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2021
A Ray of Sunshine: Transparency in Physician-Industry Relationships Is Not Enough.
Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Commercial influences on patient and public involvement: a renewed call for research and action.Health promotion international · 2024Article
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- Conflict of interest and disclosure in healthcare: We can do better.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2023Article
- International comparison of pharmaceutical industry payment disclosures in the UK and Japan: implications for self-regulation, public regulation, and transparency.Globalization and health · 2023Article
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- The intersection of the sunshine act, sutton's law, and the pandemic.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2022Article
- Drivers of medicalization in the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2022Article
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- Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives in the United States and China: The Need for Professional Public Space.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2022Article
- Health Services and Policy Research in Canada: An Editor's Reflections.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2022Article
- COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force and Conflicts of Interest.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2022Article
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- Drug company payments to General Practices in England: Cross-sectional and social network analysis.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Gifts from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to physicians in the United States have been reported since 2014, through the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Although researchers have utilized these data to publish many studies on conflicts of interest (COIs) and prescribing behavior, there is no evidence that physician behavior regarding COI has changed, or that employers, meeting organizers, or medical journals are excluding physicians based on conflicts of interest. Disclosure is necessary but not sufficient to address the damage that industry relationships causes to medical knowledge and public health.
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