Faculty Opinions recommendation of Key opinion leaders - a critical perspective.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fundamental disparities in the provision of health care across our nation and exacerbated the differences in health outcomes associated with race, socioeconomic and other demographic factors. A silver lining however is that pandemic precarity has inspired tremendous scientific collaboration among clinicians, researchers, and key opinion leaders. In this line, this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO21) which was kicked off virtually on June 4 through June 8, not only celebrated latest breakthroughs in cancer research, treatment and patient care, but also focused on health equity in cancer care. ASCO21’s fitting theme - Health equity “doing right by the patients for whom we care” reflected addressing complex forces and systems that have created disparities in cancer care, treatment, and research and identifying ways to ensure that all patients have access to and benefit from the latest cancer advances and high-quality cancer care.

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KOLs

10.1093/med/9780197574430.003.0009 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 139-162

Author(s):

Edward Shorter

Keyword(s):

Pharmaceutical Industry ◽

Marketing Strategies ◽

Opinion Leaders ◽

True Nature ◽

Key Opinion Leaders ◽

Effective Compound

This chapter considers the physicians who advised the pharmaceutical industry in the interest of bringing an effective compound to the attention of the profession. It mentions Roland Kuhn, the Swiss asylum psychiatrist who in 1957 discovered the effectiveness of imipramine in depression and advised about marketing strategies to use to sell the drug. It also highlights the true nature of the testimonials of physicians, which is well known to the industry. The industry’s contempt for them is shown by its vernacular term for sources, which are called “stables.” The chapter focuses on the “stables” of the 1980s that later became Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs). It points out that the sardonic term KOL first appeared in industry correspondence as an insider expression for academics.

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HIV Self-Testing Programs to Men Who Have Sex With Men Delivered by Social Media Key Opinion Leaders and Community-Based Organizations are Both Effective and Complementary: A National Pragmatic Study in China

JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes ◽

10.1097/qai.0000000000002375 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 84 (5) ◽

pp. 453-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wenran Zhang ◽

Qinghai Hu ◽

Weiming Tang ◽

Xia Jin ◽

Xiang Mao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Opinion Leaders ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

Self Testing ◽

Key Opinion Leaders ◽

Sex With Men ◽

Pragmatic Study

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The Transplantation Society – New Key Opinion Leaders of Tomorrow 2006

Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy ◽

10.1517/14712598.7.1.149 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 149-152

Author(s):

P H Tan ◽

K Giles ◽

P L Tan

Keyword(s):

Opinion Leaders ◽

Key Opinion Leaders ◽

Transplantation Society

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A systematic review of the compression regimes used in randomised clinical trials following endovenous ablation

Phlebology The Journal of Venous Disease ◽

10.1177/0268355516648497 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 256-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Joseph El-Sheikha ◽

Daniel Carradice ◽

Sandip Nandhra ◽

Clement Leung ◽

George E Smith ◽

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Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Clinical Trials ◽

Varicose Veins ◽

Opinion Leaders ◽

Randomised Clinical Trials ◽

Marked Variation ◽

Insufficient Evidence ◽

Endovenous Ablation ◽

Key Opinion Leaders ◽

Over Time

Objectives There is insufficient evidence to inform guidelines on the optimal compression strategy following ablation for varicose veins. This study aimed to identify the practice of key opinion leaders performing randomised clinical trials involving endovenous ablation. Method A systematic review of MEDLINE/EMBASE/CENTRAL was performed identifying the compression strategies used in randomised clinical trials where at least one comparator arm underwent endovenous ablation. Results Thirty-four randomised clinical trials were identified. At least 14 different compression products were used, with at least 6 different pressures in 7 different regimes with durations from 2 to 84 days. There was no evidence of any convergence of practice over time. Conclusions A lack of evidence as to the optimal strategy for compression has resulted in a marked variation in clinical practice. There is no suggestion that this variation is becoming less over time indicating that experience is not helping to form a consensus and, therefore, further research is required.

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