Table 7.

Advantages, disadvantages, and implementation considerations of policy options: 5. Mandatory industry disclosure.

Advantages	Disadvantages	Implementation considerations
• Influence on the physicians' behavior to reduce financial interactions with the industry (4) • Absence of feeling of injustice among physicians regarding information disclosure (4) • Public access to information, easier comparison, and interpretation, reducing the risk of unfair damage to reputation (4) • Helping patients get better information about physicians, choosing a physician, and making treatment decisions (45) • Increasing transparency and improving public trust in the health system • Helping to better monitor physicians by following up on data disclosed by the media (48) • Deterrent effect for suspicious and unethical payments (32)	• Difficulty in interpreting disclosed information for consumers (patients) (16, 48) • Its political aspect is bold (16) • Disclosure does not determine whether physician-industry interactions are appropriate • Decrease in patients' trust (32)	• It is necessary to raise the issue in general regulations (law by the parliament) • Establishment of the cooperation office of the Ministry of Health and Industry to implement the policy • Creating a searchable and user-friendly open payment system available to the public (45) • Determining the types and nature of payments and financial exchanges, determining the items that do not need to be disclosed (standardization of inputs and data) (50) • Determination of crimes and sanctions for non-disclosure and incomplete reporting (16) • Education to help patients understand data and use it to make healthcare decisions (35)