Gender Differences in Physicians' Financial Ties to Industry: A Study of National Disclosure Data

Academic literature extensively documents gender disparities in the medical profession with regard to salary, promotion, and government funded research. However, gender differences in the value of financial ties to industry have not been adequately studied despite industry's increasing contribu...

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Published in:PloS one 2015-06, Vol.10 (6), p.e0129197-e0129197
Main Authors: Rose, Susannah L, Sanghani, Ruchi M, Schmidt, Cory, Karafa, Matthew T, Kodish, Eric, Chisolm, Guy M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Bioethics
Biological products
Biomaterials
Biomedical materials
Compensation
Demographics
Disclosure
Drug Industry - economics
Ethics
Female
Females
Financial disclosure
Gender aspects
Gender differences
Humans
Income - statistics & numerical data
Male
Meals
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medicine
Physicians
Physicians - economics
Physicians - statistics & numerical data
Regression analysis
Regression models
Research funding
Researchers
Sex differences
Sex Factors
Significance
Statistical analysis
Statistical significance
Studies
Transparency
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Summary:Academic literature extensively documents gender disparities in the medical profession with regard to salary, promotion, and government funded research. However, gender differences in the value of financial ties to industry have not been adequately studied despite industry's increasing contribution to income and research funding to physicians in the U.S. We analyzed publicly reported financial relationships among 747,603 physicians and 432 pharmaceutical, device and biomaterials companies. Demographic and payment information were analyzed using hierarchical regression models to determine if statistically significant gender differences exist in physician-industry interactions regarding financial ties, controlling for key covariates. In 2011, 432 biomedical companies made an excess of $17,991,000 in payments to 220,908 physicians. Of these physicians, 75.1% were male. Female physicians, on average, received fewer total dollars (-$3,598.63, p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0129197