Journal of General Practice

Nicolas Senn

Publications

• Research Article
  General Practitioners’ willingness to Pay for Continuing Medical Education in a Fee-for-service Universal Coverage Health Care System
  Author(s): Shahzia Lambat Emery, Reto Auer, Nicolas Senn, vIsabella Locatelli and Jacques CornuzShahzia Lambat Emery, Reto Auer, Nicolas Senn, vIsabella Locatelli and Jacques Cornuz
  
  Background: Sponsoring of medical meetings by life science companies has led to reduced participation fees for physicians but questions potential drawbacks. Ongoing discussions are proposing to ban such sponsoring which may increase participation fees. Objectives: To evaluate factors associated with general practitioners’ willingness to pay for medical meetings, their support of a binding legislation prohibiting sponsoring and their opinion on alternative financing options. Methods: An anonymous web-based questionnaire was sent to 447 general practitioners’ of one state in Switzerland, identified through their affiliation to a medical association. Results: Of the 115 physicians answering, 48% were willing to pay more than what they currently pay for medical meetings and 79% disagreed that sponsoring introduced a bias in their own prescription practices. In univariate analy.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-9126.1000172

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