TY - JOUR T1 - Trend in Industry Payments to Rheumatologists in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic Between 2013 and 2021 JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol DO - 10.3899/jrheum.220512 SP - jrheum.220512 AU - Anju Murayama AU - Sae Kamamoto AU - Kenichi Higuchi AU - Haruki Shigeta AU - Akihiko Ozaki Y1 - 2022/10/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2022/10/26/jrheum.220512.abstract N2 - 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 ER -