Conflicts of Interest in "Throwaway" Dermatology Publications: Analysis of the Open Payments Database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dermatology journals, periodicals, editorials, and news magazines are influential resources that are not uniformly regulated and subject to influence from the pharmaceutical industry. This study evaluates industry payments to physician editorial board members of common dermatology publications, including "throwaway" publications.

Objective

The aim of this study was to characterize the extent and nature of industry payments to editorial board members of different dermatologic publications in order to ascertain differences in payments between different types of publications.

Methods

A list of editorial board members was compiled from a collection of clinical dermatology publications received over a 3-month period. Data from the Open Payments database from 201

SUBMITTER: Roman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10334964 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature