Table 4 MBE areas of interest to participants
Item: What areas of medical business ethics are you most interested in learning more about? (Check as many as apply) | MS % | PG % | X2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Physician-industry interactions in clinical practice (e.g., interactions with drug and device reps) | 61.2% | 41.3% | 39.9** |
Regulation of physician business practices (e.g. fraud laws) | 39.3% | 43.7% | 2.0 |
Whistleblowing (e.g. when and how to report medical fraud) | 31.0% | 19.2% | 17.7** |
The business aspects of medicine (e.g., billing, coding, and reimbursement systems) | 61.5% | 69.5% | 7.0** |
Health care delivery systems (e.g., understanding managed care, employer-based insurance, single payer systems, etc.) | 63.7% | 54.5% | 8.8** |
Health care access, rationing, resource allocation | 59.3% | 42.6% | 27.9** |
Physician organizations and political activism | 26.0% | 20.5% | 4.0* |
Physicians as employees | 38.8% | 32.1% | 4.8* |
Physicians as owners of medical practices | 41.4% | 37.6% | 1.5 |
Professionalism and self-regulation | 24.7% | 23.9% | .08 |
Conflicts of interest in medical research | 33.7% | 25.3% | 8.4** |
Physicians as owners of intellectual property and data | 34.4% | 34.7% | .01 |