A Tool to Find Drug Companies’ Payments to Doctors For Drug Promotion.

29 Sunday Dec 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Drug Promotion, Evidence, Health Law, Health Reform

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Charles Ornstein, Dan Nguyen, Doctors, Drug Companies, Drug Promotion, Health, Jeremy B. Merrill, Pharmaceutical industry, Physicians, ProPublica, Sisi Wei, Tom Carper, Tracy Weber

Dollars for Docs – How Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors, by Jeremy B. Merrill, Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber, Sisi Wei, and Dan Nguyen, ProPublica

http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

ProPublica’s website provides a wealth of information about the ways the drug companies use medical institutions and physicians to promote their products. -CCE

Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promoting their drugs. But 15 companies have begun publishing the information, some because of legal settlements. Use this tool to search for payments.