Are These Docs Paid to Change Their Medical Opinion? medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Physician Payment Source May Affect Evaluation for Black Lung Disease physiciansweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from physiciansweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Study Reveals Bias Among Doctors Who Classify X-rays for Coal Miner s Black Lung Claims
UIC researchers first to publish data on B-reader financial conflicts of interest
Getty Images
April 1, 2021 University of Illinois Chicago researchers are the first to report on the financial conflicts of interest that exist among doctors who review the chest X-rays of coal miners who file workers compensation claims of totally disabling disease with the U.S. Department of Labor s Federal Black Lung Program.
The UIC researchers found that the determinations of these doctors who are known as B-readers and who are certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH were strongly associated with the party that hired them.
Are physicians biased when reading black lung x-rays? auntminnie.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from auntminnie.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Physicians financial conflicts of interest may play a role in black lung diagnoses eurekalert.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurekalert.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.