biostudies-literatureUnknown9(9)Inoue KKI was supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Interschool Training Program in Chronic Diseases (BWF-CHIP), a Fellowship in Epidemiology at UCLA, and Heiwa Nakajima FoundationOBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between physician characteristics and the value of industry payments. DESIGN:Observational study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:Using the 2015-2017 Open Payments reports of industry payments linked to the Physician Compare database, we examined the association between physician characteristics (physician sex, years in practice, medical school attended and specialty) and the industry payment value, adjusting for other physician characteristic and institution fixed effects (effectively comparing physicians practicing at the same institution). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Our primary outcome was the value of total industry payments to physicians including (1) general payments (all forms of payments other than those classified for research purpose, eg, consulting fBMJ opene031010https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6756347biostudies-literatureAssociation between physician characteristics and payments from industry in 2015-2017: observational study.PMC6756347Tsugawa YBlumenthal DMElashoff DInoue KfalseAssociation between physician characteristics and payments from industry in 2015-2017: observational study.OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between physician characteristics and the value of industry payments. DESIGN:Observational study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:Using the 2015-2017 Open Payments reports of industry payments linked to the Physician Compare database, we examined the association between physician characteristics (physician sex, years in practice, medical school attended and specialty) and the industry payment value, adjusting for other physician characteristic and institution fixed effects (effectively comparing physicians practicing at the same institution). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Our primary outcome was the value of total industry payments to physicians including (1) general payments (all forms of payments other than those classified for research purpose, eg, consulting f2019-01-01T00:00:00Z2019 Sep2025-04-04T22:11:36.435Z2019-10-16T07:03:33ZS-EPMC67563473154275910.1136/bmjopen-2019-031010