Do you know how many unique clinical investigators were active on industry sponsored studies over the last three years for which data are available (2018-2020)?
The answer is 37,596.
And if you look at the data, the number of investigators active in any one year has remained more or less constant during that time period.
Estimates of the size of the active US clinical investigator pool are often wildly inaccurate, largely due to paucity of accurate data. Open Payments, however, has changed the way we can sift through the data.
Open Payments requires that all payments to physicians and selected other medical professionals by pharmaceutical or medical device companies, with at least one marketed product, be reported by the amount, date, purpose, and company making that payment. The data must be returned to the relevant medical professional for validation. These data contain clinical trial research payments to clinical investigators, by name, unique ID number and address.
Open Payments data is the only federally mandated, validated source of this information. And SunshineMD is the only company which can provide quick and easy access to that information.
The below chart represents the number of unique active US clinical investigators working for Industry sponsored studies.
SunshineMD knows the study experience and enrollment performance for every one of these investigators. If you’d like to learn more about what SunshineMD can do for your clinical studies, schedule a demo today to see for yourself. Email us at hello@sunshinemddata.com to schedule your demo