PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anju Murayama
AU  - Sae Kamamoto
AU  - Kenichi Higuchi
AU  - Haruki Shigeta
AU  - Akihiko Ozaki
TI  - Trend in Industry Payments to Rheumatologists in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic Between 2013 and 2021
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.220512
DP  - 2022 Oct 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - jrheum.220512
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2022/10/26/jrheum.220512.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2022/10/26/jrheum.220512.full
AB  - The Open Payments Database (OPD), the legally binding database of payments made by pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers to all physicians,1 was launched in 2013 in the United States, in order to improve transparency in the financial relationship between healthcare professionals and industry. Meanwhile, a large number of the general public and physicians were not aware of the OPD2,3 and there has been no reducing trend among rheumatologists so far.4