Pharmaceutical industry-funded events for Australian health professionals (Oct 2011-Sept 2015)

Abstract

About the project This project stems from the Evidence, Policy and Influence Collaborative, led by Prof Lisa Bero, which seeks to translate rigorous and unbiased evidence into clinical practice and health policy. One facet of this collaborative is the study of bias in healthcare: we sought to understand the extent of pharmaceutical industry marketing in the form of sponsored events for health professionals as a means to begin tracing the influence of marketing on clinical care. About the data The dataset contains 301 publicly available company transparency reports covering the period from October 2011 to September 2015. The PDF reports were downloaded from the website of Medicines Australia and converted in Excel files. The reports contain information on the location, the type of event and all “transfers of value” to professionals who attended the events, including hospitality and travel for individual attendees, as well as event costs such as room rentals and speaker honoraria. Authors and Institutions Alice Fabbri - Center of Research in Medical Pharmacology, The University of Insubria; Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney Quinn Grundy - Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7640-8614 Barbara Mintzes - Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8671-915X Swestika Swandari - Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney; Indonesian Ministry of Health Ray Moynihan - Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University; Sydney Medical School – Public Health, The University of Sydney - http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9283-742X Emily Walkom - School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle - http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4458-5448 Lisa A Bero - Charles Perkins Centre and Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney - http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1893-6651 Funding Scheme This work was partially funded via a University of Sydney Faculty of Pharmacy summer scholarship