Are Financial Payments From the Pharmaceutical Industry Associated With Physician Prescribing? : A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Financial payments from the drug industry to U.S. physicians are common. Payments may influence physicians' clinical decision making and drug prescribing.

Purpose

To evaluate whether receipt of payments from the drug industry is associated with physician prescribing practices.

Data sources

MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and EconLit were searched without language restrictions. The search had no limiting start date and concluded on 16 September 2020.

Study selection

Studies that estimated the association between receipt of industry payments (exposure) and prescribing (outcome).

Data extraction

Pairs of reviewers extracted the primary analysis or analyses from each study and evaluated risk of bias (ROB).

Data syn

SUBMITTER: Mitchell AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8315858 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature