Table 8. Attitudes of patient and the general public towards the entities that should be involved in regulating surgeon-device industry interactions.
| % of patients who agreed that the following entities should be involved in regulation of interaction | ||||||||
| Physicians | Professional organization | Hospitals or universities | Government | Company representative | No answer | Combination of the latter | ||
| Country, year1 | % (N)2 | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | Reference |
| USA, 2010–2011 | 81% (N = 252) | 83% (N = 251) | 60% (N = 251) | 26% (N = 251) | - | - | - | [50] |
| Canada, 2010–2011 | 78% (N = 252) | 83% (N = 252) | 61% (N = 252) | 35% (N = 252) | - | - | - | [50] |
| USA, 2007 | 32.2% (N = 245) | - | 20% (N = 245) | 13.5% (N = 245) | - | 34.3% (N = 245) | - | [47] |
| USA, 2012 | - | 11.6% (N = 501) | 6% (N = 501) | 8.2% (N = 501) | 2.6% (N = 501) | - | 71.7% (N = 501) | [49] |
| USA, 2014 | - | 17.4% (N = 610) | 7.4% (N = 610) | 10% (N = 610) | 1% (N = 610) | - | 64.3% (N = 610) | [7] |
| % of patients who agreed that the following entities should have the most power to regulate interaction | ||||||||
| Medical professional societies | Hospitals or universities | Government | Company representative | Not sure | ||||
| Country, year | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | % (N) | Reference |
| USA, 2014 | - | 34.9% (N = 610) | 13% (N = 610) | 17.9% (N = 610) | 1.5% (N = 610) | 32.7% (N = 610) | - | [7] |
| USA, 2012 | - | 34.1% (N = 501) | 13.1% (N = 501) | 8.7% (N = 501) | 0.8% (N = 501) | 43.3% (N = 501) | - | [49] |
1 This indicates year of the study for each finding (and if not reported, the year of publication)
2 N refers to the sample size