Study examines drug industry payments to physicians who establish cancer guidelines

Who protects physicians and patients from guidelines?

gust 2010); its position in the guideline is very prominent [1] . The development of this new guideline must have started in close temporal relationship to dronedarone’s EU market approval in November 2009, given the usual time requirements for the completion of such work. The explicit positioning of the compound in the new guideline resulted in an increased rate of prescription. However, compl...

Guidelines on gifts to physicians from industry: an update.

On December 3, 1990, the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs issued its six guidelines on gifts to physicians from industry.' Since then, the Council has received numerous requests for interpretations of the guidelines. Many questions about the application of the guidelines can be answered by referring to the full report of the Council that was presented with the guidelines to the American ...

Sunlight as disinfectant--new rules on disclosure of industry payments to physicians.

n engl j med 368;22 nejm.org may 30, 2013 2052 small-value gifts.5 The discrepancy between data sets also raises the possibility that some qualifying payments were not reported to the Massachusetts database. The federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act will soon require manufacturers to report most payments to physicians and teaching hospitals on a national level. Recently released rules indicate...

Family physicians' perspectives on practice guidelines related to cancer control

BACKGROUND Family physicians (FPs) play an important role in cancer control. While FPs' attitudes towards, and use of guidelines in general have been explored, no study has looked at the needs of FPs with respect to guidelines for the continuum of cancer control. The objective of this study was to understand which guideline topics FPs consider important. METHODS Five group interviews were con...

Disseminating Practice Guidelines to Physicians