Like Dr. Bendavid, we were concerned about the potentially confounding effect of social
desirability response bias1 (the desire of study participants to please and be treated …

Background Over the past decade, revelations of inappropriate financial relationships
between surgeons and surgical device manufacturers have challenged the presumption that …

The relationship between surgeons, particularly those who are involved in teaching the next
generation, and industry has been the subject of discussion for a long time. The issue …

I was particularly struck by the discussion of pediatricians, a subset of physicians heretofore
largely ignored in analyses of physician attitudes toward industry. Korenstein et al note that …

Background: The US Department of Justice's investigations into financial relationships
between surgical device manufacturers and orthopaedic surgeons have raised the question …

Background The relationships between industry and medical professionals are
controversial. The purpose of our study was to evaluate surgeons' current opinions …

Background The Physician Payment Sunshine Act, which became federal law in January
2012, mandated that medical device manufacturers must disclose any financial support …

Objective To provide preliminary evidence of the types and amount of involvement by
healthcare industry representatives (HCIRs) in surgery, as well as the ethical concerns of …

THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN OUR COUNTRY is experiencing increased scrutiny as
political efforts of reform are coupled with ethical questions of propriety regarding …

Methods| To assess surgeon cost knowledge and the association of CRCs with cost
knowledge, we conducted a webbased survey of 100 attending general surgeons and …