Payment data disclosed by pharmaceutical companies.
To improve transparency in financial relationships between
pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals, the Japanese
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA), representing over 80
leading pharmaceutical companies, mandates its members to disclose
payments for lecturing, consulting, and manuscript drafting made to
physicians, including the recipients’ names and affiliations on their
websites, as previously explained[4,23,24]. However, according to
the JPMA guidance, payment categories, such as meals, travel and
accommodations, and other gifts, are disclosed in aggregated amounts and
could not be analyzed at individual physician level. Additionally,
payments for lecturing, consulting, and drafting are generally paid
directly to physicians from pharmaceutical companies and in larger
amounts than payments for other categories[13,25-27].