The Sunshine Act
In the blog I wrote in June 2012 I discussed the proposed physician payment Sunshine Act in the USA. This has now come into effect as of August 1st 2013 and it will be interesting to see what impact this has on physician payments and this rather hidden interaction between industry and medical practitioners. As noted […]
Read moreThe interpretation of research funding disclosures by physicians
This is a very interesting study in which 500 board certified internists were presented with abstracts that described a clinical trial of three hypothetical drugs. The trials had a high, a medium or a low level of quality and each report had included a disclosure about the source of funding, either from a pharmaceutical company, […]
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