Shining light on the Sunshine Act.

Shining a light on the Sunshine Act.

Shedding light on what the Sunshine Act will mean for physicians.

Systematic review of reports describing potential impact of the Sunshine Act on peer-reviewed medical publications.

OBJECTIVE The Physician Payments Sunshine Act, enacted in 2010, is intended to increase the transparency of relationships between US physicians and teaching hospitals and manufacturers of drugs, biologics, and medical devices. We examined current opinion regarding the impact of the Sunshine Act on peer-reviewed medical publications. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We searched indexed databases (N...

The sunshine act and medical publications: Guidance from professional medical associations.

OBJECTIVE To review guidance from professional medical associations to physicians on the Sunshine Act, with a focus on industry support for medical publications. METHODS Using 'Sunshine Act' as a search term, we searched PubMed (dates February 2013 to November 2014) and the 'grey literature' using Google and Google Scholar. Online information was extracted from websites of pre-identified prof...

The Sunshine Act: Commercial conflicts of interest and the limits of transparency

We must create a world in which the best experts are those that are free from commercial influence. And Europe needs legislation along the lines of the US Sunshine Act to combat both real and perceived commercial influence in science and health care. Sunshine Act, which became federal law in the United States in January 2012. 2 The Act requires drug and medical manufacturers who participate in ...