US Nationwide Disclosure of Industry Payments and Public Trust in Physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Transparency of industry payments to physicians could engender greater public trust in physicians but might also lead to greater mistrust of physicians and the medical profession, adversely affecting the patient-physician relationship.

Objective

To examine the association between nationwide public disclosure of industry payments and Americans' trust in their physicians and trust in the medical profession.

Design, setting, and participants

Survey study using difference-in-difference analyses of a national longitudinal survey comparing changes in states where industry payments were newly disclosed by Open Payments with changes in states where payments information was already available because of state sunshine laws. The US population-based surveys were conduc

SUBMITTER: Kanter GP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6481437 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature