Towards Patient-Centered Conflicts of Interest Policy.

ABSTRACT: Financial conflicts of interest exist between industry and physicians, and these relationships have the power to influence physicians' medical practice. Transparency about conflicts matters for ensuring adequate informed consent, controlling healthcare expenditure, and encouraging physicians' reflection on professionalism. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Open Payments Program (OPP) to publicly disclose and bring transparency to the relationships between industry and physicians in the United States. We set out to explore user awareness of the database and the ease of accessibility to disclosed information, however, as we show, both awareness and actual use are very low. Two practical policies can greatly enhance its intended function and help alleviate eth

SUBMITTER: Young PD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819371 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature