Donations Made and Received: A Study of Disclosure Practices of Pharmaceutical Companies and Patient Groups in Canada.

ABSTRACT: Given the increasing role of patient groups in pharmaceutical policy-making in Canada, this observational study was undertaken to determine whether companies that are members of Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC) list, on their publicly available websites, the names of patient groups that they make donations to and reciprocally, whether patient groups publicly list the names of the companies that they receive donations from. Websites of IMC members were searched for the names of the patient groups receiving donations, value of the donations and year the donations were made. The website of each patient group that was listed as receiving a donation was then searched for information about the name of companies making donations along with the value of the donations, year the donations were made

SUBMITTER: Lexchin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9808287 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature