Total amounts of payments |
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Payment values, $
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112,934,503
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Number of payments, No.
|
164,978
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Payments per cardiologist |
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Mean (standard deviation) a
|
|
Payment values, $
|
12,649 (35,012)
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Number of payments, No.
|
16.7 (33.9)
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Median (interquartile range) a
|
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Payment values, $
|
2,947 (1,022 – 8,787)
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Number of payments, No.
|
7.0 (2.0 – 17.0)
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Maximuma
|
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Payment values, $
|
782,015
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Number of payments, No.
|
575.0
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Gini index
|
0.840
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Cardiologists with specific amounts of payments (N=15,048), n (%) |
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No payment
|
5,190 (34.5)
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Any payments
|
9,858 (65.5)
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$1-$1,000
|
2,318 (15.4)
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$1,001-$10,000
|
5,314 (35.3)
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$10,001-$50,000
|
1,825 (12.1)
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$50,001-$100,000
|
225 (1.5)
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$100,001-$200,000
|
109 (0.7)
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$200,001 or more
|
67 (0.5)
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Payment categories |
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Lecturing payments
|
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Monetary value (%), $
|
100,067,695 (88.6)
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Number of payments (%), No.
|
148,012 (8.0)
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Number of cardiologists receiving payments (%), n
|
9,710 (64.5)
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Consulting payments
|
|
Monetary value (%), $
|
9,084,765 (89.7)
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Number of payments (%), No.
|
11,814 (8.0)
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Number of cardiologists receiving payments (%), n
|
3,561 (23.7)
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Writing payments
|
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Monetary value (%), $
|
3,782,044 (3.3)
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Number of payments (%), No.
|
5,152 (3.1)
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Number of cardiologists receiving payments (%), n
|
2,300 (15.3)
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