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Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: There is evidence that physicians’ prescription behavior is negatively affected by the extent of their interactions with pharmaceutical companies. In order to develop and implement policies and interventions for better management of interactions, we need to understand physicians’ perspec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26606971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1709-4 |
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author | Lotfi, Tamara Morsi, Rami Z. Zmeter, Nada Godah, Mohammad W. Alkhaled, Lina Kahale, Lara A. Nass, Hala Brax, Hneine Fadlallah, Racha Akl, Elie A. |
author_facet | Lotfi, Tamara Morsi, Rami Z. Zmeter, Nada Godah, Mohammad W. Alkhaled, Lina Kahale, Lara A. Nass, Hala Brax, Hneine Fadlallah, Racha Akl, Elie A. |
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description | BACKGROUND: There is evidence that physicians’ prescription behavior is negatively affected by the extent of their interactions with pharmaceutical companies. In order to develop and implement policies and interventions for better management of interactions, we need to understand physicians’ perspectives on this issue. Surveys addressing physicians’ interactions with pharmaceutical companies need to use validated tools to ensure the validity of their findings. OBJECTIVE: To assess the validity of tools used in surveys of physicians about the extent and nature of their interactions with pharmaceutical companies, and about their knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards such interactions; and to identify those tools that have been formally validated. METHODS: We developed a search strategy with the assistance of a medical librarian. We electronically searched MEDLINE and EMBASE databases in September 2015. Teams of two reviewers conducted data selection and data abstraction. They identified eligible studies in one table and then abstracted the relevant data from the studies with validated tools in another table. Tables were piloted and standardized. RESULTS: We identified one validated questionnaire out of the 11 assessing the nature and extent of the interaction, and three validated questionnaires out of the 47 assessing knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of physicians toward the interaction. None of these validated questionnaires were used in more than one survey. CONCLUSION: The available supporting evidence of the issue of physicians’ interaction with pharmaceutical company is of low quality. There is a need for research to develop and validate tools to survey physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical companies. |
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spelling | pubmed-46606632015-11-27 Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review Lotfi, Tamara Morsi, Rami Z. Zmeter, Nada Godah, Mohammad W. Alkhaled, Lina Kahale, Lara A. Nass, Hala Brax, Hneine Fadlallah, Racha Akl, Elie A. BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: There is evidence that physicians’ prescription behavior is negatively affected by the extent of their interactions with pharmaceutical companies. In order to develop and implement policies and interventions for better management of interactions, we need to understand physicians’ perspectives on this issue. Surveys addressing physicians’ interactions with pharmaceutical companies need to use validated tools to ensure the validity of their findings. OBJECTIVE: To assess the validity of tools used in surveys of physicians about the extent and nature of their interactions with pharmaceutical companies, and about their knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards such interactions; and to identify those tools that have been formally validated. METHODS: We developed a search strategy with the assistance of a medical librarian. We electronically searched MEDLINE and EMBASE databases in September 2015. Teams of two reviewers conducted data selection and data abstraction. They identified eligible studies in one table and then abstracted the relevant data from the studies with validated tools in another table. Tables were piloted and standardized. RESULTS: We identified one validated questionnaire out of the 11 assessing the nature and extent of the interaction, and three validated questionnaires out of the 47 assessing knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of physicians toward the interaction. None of these validated questionnaires were used in more than one survey. CONCLUSION: The available supporting evidence of the issue of physicians’ interaction with pharmaceutical company is of low quality. There is a need for research to develop and validate tools to survey physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical companies. BioMed Central 2015-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4660663/ /pubmed/26606971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1709-4 Text en © Lotfi et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lotfi, Tamara Morsi, Rami Z. Zmeter, Nada Godah, Mohammad W. Alkhaled, Lina Kahale, Lara A. Nass, Hala Brax, Hneine Fadlallah, Racha Akl, Elie A. Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review |
title | Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review |
title_full | Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review |
title_fullStr | Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review |
title_short | Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review |
title_sort | validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26606971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1709-4 |
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