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

Susannah L Rose, Ruchi M Sanghani, Cory Schmidt, Matthew T Karafa, Eric Kodish and Guy M Chisolm

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-10

Abstract: Background: 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. Methods & Findings: 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

Date: 2015
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