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Table 6 Payments to individual- and organisational-level recipients under the JPMA Transparency Guidelines and the ABPI Code (2018)

From: International comparison of pharmaceutical industry payment disclosures in the UK and Japan: implications for self-regulation, public regulation, and transparency

Comparative JPMA-ABPI recipient categories

JPMA Transparency Guidelines

ABPI Code

Recipients

Recipient categories

JPMA recipient categories

Total value of payments ($)

Value of payments to named recipients ($)

ABPI recipient categories

Total value of payments ($)

Value of payments to named recipients ($)

Individual level

Healthcare professionals

Medical personnel

1,364,162,424.48 (100%)

249,488,350.76 (18.3%)

Healthcare professionals

65,300,800.84 (100.0%)

37,406,101.85 (57.3%)

Other healthcare personnel

Persons involved in medical operations

  

Other relevant decision makers

Non-healthcare professions and roles

Life science researchers

  

No equivalent category

Organisational level

Healthcare organisations

Healthcare organisations

1,581,648,701.10 (100%)

1,541,575,712.50 (97.5%)

Healthcare organisations

106,961,488.98 (100.0%)

106,914,317.19 (99.9%)

Unclear if individual or organisational level

 

No relevant JPMA recipient categories

42,814,875.43 (100%)

0 (0%)

Recipients of research and development payments-

493,470,880.71 (100.0%)

0 (0%)

Total

  

2,988,626,001.01 (100%),

1,791,064,063.27 (59.9%)

 

665,733,170.5 (100.0%)

144,320,419.0 (21.7%)