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To evaluate whether payments from industry differ according to the sex of recipient medical oncologists.

January 1, 2025JCO oncology advances.Open Access

Sex-Based Bias in Industry Payments to Medical Oncologists

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To evaluate whether payments from industry differ according to the sex of recipient medical oncologists.
Analyzed Open Payments and CMS database records from 2016 through 2020 for medical oncologists who received at least one industry research payment (n = 7,285).
Collected physician covariates including sex, h-index, academic rank, practice location, and institutional NIH funding rank across national provider and bibliographic databases.
No statistically significant sex-based differences were observed in research payments to medical oncologists.
Male medical oncologists received significantly higher general payments than female oncologists, including consulting (+204%), speaker fees (+194%), travel and lodging (+162%), and food and beverage (+114%).

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Observational study reveals substantial sex disparities in nonresearch industry payments among medical oncologists, indicating persistent financial inequities within the specialty.

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Jan et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6fcad9f44fa9f079dd4823 https://doi.org/10.1200/oa-24-00029

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Observational study reveals substantial sex disparities in nonresearch industry payments among medical oncologists, indicating persistent financial inequities within the specialty.

Sex-Based Bias in Industry Payments to Medical Oncologists

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Sex-Based Bias in Industry Payments to Medical Oncologists

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