Mining Open Payments Data: Analysis of Industry Payments to Thoracic Surgeons From 2014-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The financial relationship between physicians and industries has become a hotly debated issue globally. The Physician Payments Sunshine Act of the US Affordable Care Act (2010) promoted transparency of the transactions between industries and physicians by making remuneration data publicly accessible in the Open Payments Program database. Meanwhile, according to the World Health Organization, the majority of all noncommunicable disease deaths were caused by cardiovascular disease.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the distribution of non-research and non-ownership payments made to thoracic surgeons, to explore the regularity of financial relationships between industries and thoracic surgeons.

Methods

Annual statistical data were obtained from the Ope

SUBMITTER: Na X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294877 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature