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Table 1 List of the included studies

From: Causes and consequences of quack medicine in health care: a scoping review of global experience

First Author

Date

Title

Country

Type

Study Design

Shrivastava

2014

Public health measures to fight counterfeit medicine market

India

Letter to Editor

Qualitative

Jarvis

1999

Quackery: The national council against health fraud perspective

USA

Review

Review

Kalb

1999

Health care fraud and abuse

USA

Review

Review

Miller

2013

Exposing medical fraud: “one of the last taboos in society”

Canada

Note

Qualitative

Stelfox

2003

An analysis of one potential form of health care fraud in Canada

Canada

Letter to Editor

Qualitative

Avery

1996

Congress focuses on health care fraud and abuse

USA

Commentary

Commentary

Dear

2007

Disease mongering - A challenge for everyone involved in healthcare

United Kingdom

Note

Qualitative

Cowart

1988

Health fraud’s toll: lost hopes, misspent billions

USA

Opinion

Qualitative

Johnson

1989

The health fraud battle. Education is the best defense

USA

Original Article

Qualitative

Hosseini

2011

Counterfeit medicines: Report of a cross-sectional retrospective study in Iran

Iran

Original Article

Cross-Sectional

Mc Cullough

2015

An Interview with Deputy Chief, Health Care Fraud Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office

USA

Interview

Qualitative

Lohsiriwat

2007

Fraud and deceit in published medical research

Thailand

Review

Review

Sparrow

1996

Health care fraud control: understanding the challenge

USA

Original Article

Qualitative

Jarvis

1992

Quackery: a national scandal

USA

Review

Review

Bernard

1965

Why People Become the Victims of Medical Quackery

USA

Opinion

Qualitative

Worrall

1990

Detecting health fraud in the field of learning disabilities

USA

Opinion

Qualitative

Akunyili

2004

Risk of medicines: Counterfeit drugs

Nigeria

Original Article

Qualitative

Nsimba

2008

Problems associated with substandard and counterfeit drugs in developing countries

Nigeria

Review

Review

Price

2009

Health care fraud: Physicians as white-collar criminals?

USA

Editorial

Qualitative

Miller

2013

Medical fraud north of the 49th

Canada

Note

Qualitative

Widder

2015

The appeal of medical quackery: a rhetorical analysis

USA

Commentary

Commentary

Iroegbulem

2020

Disease Mongering: How Sickness Sells

USA

Commentary

Commentary

Berthelot

2019

The negative Hawthorne effect: Explaining pain overexpression

France

Original Article

Qualitative