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Interventional Cardiology Payments and Device Choices—The Ties That (May) Blind

Interventional Cardiology Payments and Device Choices—The Ties That (May) Blind Letters RESEARCH LETTER This study was exempt from institutional review board approval owing to the use of publicly available data that were HEALTH CARE POLICY AND LAW unrelated to patients or concerns of identifiability. Stata, ver- Distribution of Industry Payments Among Medical sion 15.1 (StataCorp, LP) was used for statistical analysis; P <.05 Directors of Catheterization and Electrophysiology (2-sided) was considered significant. Laboratories From the Top 100 US Hospitals Medical directors of cardiac catheterization (CC) and electro- Results | For 2017, directors of CC and EP laboratories affili- physiology (EP) laboratories play an important role in the se- ated with the top 100 hospitals based on US News & World lection of devices and medications available within hospital Report rankings received $1 416 232 and $2 307 504 from in- procedural areas. This may also influence the practice pat- dustry, respectively (Table 1 and Table 2). Among the 195 labo- terns of their colleagues. As ratory directors included in the study, 7 IC directors and 4 EP such, payments made from directors received no payments in 2017. Median (interquar- Editor's Note page 1284 industry to medical direc- tile range [IQR]) payments to directors of CC laboratories were tors of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA Internal Medicine American Medical Association

Interventional Cardiology Payments and Device Choices—The Ties That (May) Blind

Redberg, Rita F.
JAMA Internal Medicine , Volume 179 (9) – Sep 17, 2019
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Letters RESEARCH LETTER This study was exempt from institutional review board approval owing to the use of publicly available data that were HEALTH CARE POLICY AND LAW unrelated to patients or concerns of identifiability. Stata, ver- Distribution of Industry Payments Among Medical sion 15.1 (StataCorp, LP) was used for statistical analysis; P <.05 Directors of Catheterization and Electrophysiology (2-sided) was considered significant. Laboratories From the Top 100 US Hospitals Medical directors of cardiac catheterization (CC) and electro- Results | For 2017, directors of CC and EP laboratories affili- physiology (EP) laboratories play an important role in the se- ated with the top 100 hospitals based on US News & World lection of devices and medications available within hospital Report rankings received $1 416 232 and $2 307 504 from in- procedural areas. This may also influence the practice pat- dustry, respectively (Table 1 and Table 2). Among the 195 labo- terns of their colleagues. As ratory directors included in the study, 7 IC directors and 4 EP such, payments made from directors received no payments in 2017. Median (interquar- Editor's Note page 1284 industry to medical direc- tile range [IQR]) payments to directors of CC laboratories were tors of

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Published: Sep 17, 2019

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