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Half of US physicians receive industry payments, study finds

BMJ 2017; 357 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j2170 (Published 03 May 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;357:j2170
  1. Michael McCarthy
  1. Seattle

Nearly half of US physicians receive payments from the drug, medical device, and related medical industries, and surgeons and male physicians are more likely to do so, a US study has found.1

The study leader, Jona A Hattangadi-Gluth, of the University of California, San Diego, based in La Jolla, said that most payments were relatively small but that many specialists receive more than $10 000 (£7750; $9160) a year from industry, including 11% of orthopedic surgeons, 12% of neurologists, and 13% of neurosurgeons.

She said, “The data suggest that these payments are much more pervasive than we thought and [that] there is much more money going directly to physicians than …

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