Table 1.
Summary of personal payments from pharmaceutical companies to respiratory specialists certified by the JRS between 2016 and 2019
| Variables | |
|---|---|
| Total payments, USD | |
| Payment values, USD | 53,547,391 |
| Counts, n | 74,195 |
| Companies, n | 72 |
|
| |
| Average per specialist ± SD | |
| Payment values, USD | 12,134±34,045 |
| Counts, n | 16.8±34.9 |
| Companies, n | 4.8±4.3 |
|
| |
| Median (IQR) | |
| Payment values, USD | 2,210 (715–8,178) |
| Counts, n | 5.0 (2.0–16.0) |
| Companies, n | 3.0 (1.0–7.0) |
|
| |
| Range | |
| Payment values, USD | 31–495,332 |
| Counts, n | 1.0–461 |
| Companies, n | 1.0–30 |
|
| |
| Physicians with specific payments, n (%) | |
| Any payments | 4,413 (62.0) |
| Payments >USD 500 | 3,747 (52.7) |
| Payments >USD 1,000 | 3,000 (42.2) |
| Payments >USD 5,000 | 1,478 (20.8) |
| Payments >USD 10,000 | 940 (13.2) |
| Payments >USD 50,000 | 239 (3.4) |
| Payments >USD 100,000 | 111 (1.6) |
|
| |
| Gini index | 0.871 |
|
| |
| Category of payments, USD (%) | |
| Lecturing | 45,847,076 (85.6) |
| Consulting | 5,770,483 (10.8) |
| Writing | 1,701,141 (3.2) |
| Other | 228,691 (0.43) |
IQR, interquartile range; SD, standard deviation.