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Industry Payments Unrelated to Research Made to Physicians Across Medical Specialties

Authors: David Carr, M.D., H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., MPH

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 14/2022

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Industry payments to physicians may be related to research or unrelated to research — such as the following: consulting fees, travel and lodging, and honoraria. We compared the frequency and value of industry payments unrelated to research across the major medical specialties in 2018. Prior publications have identified that approximately half of all physicians receive payments unrelated to research but that most (~90%) are less than $10,000¹. We sought to focus on those physicians receiving “significant” payments (>$5000) as may be defined by institutional conflict of interest policy. …

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2018 AAMC Physician Specialty Data Report. Table 1.2. Number of people per active physician by specialty, 2017. https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data/number-people-active-physician-specialty-2017. Accessed February 2020.

Title: Industry Payments Unrelated to Research Made to Physicians Across Medical Specialties
Authors: David Carr, M.D.
H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., MPH
Publication date: 08-06-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 14/2022
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07683-2

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