Christine Baugh, PhD, MPH, Eric G. Campbell, PhD, Lisa Bero, PhD, and co-authors published a study of pharmaceutical and medical device industry events for health professionals, utilizing data from the Medicare/Medicaid Open Payments database. 

Their findings suggest that expanding and enforcing the reporting requirements to cover all payments to all registered health professionals would improve the transparency and accuracy of estimates of the true extent of all sponsored events, as well as their reach and impact on clinical practice.   Read article>>