Industry Payments to United States Rheumatologist-Authors of Publications in High-Impact Rheumatology Journals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A skewed percentage of industry payments goes to "key opinion leaders" (KOLs) whose prominence and influence has increased with time. Given that KOL is neither precisely defined nor quantifiable, we turned to the level of industry payments as a surrogate quantifiable metric and assessed the associations between industry payments to US rheumatologists and their authorships of publications in high-impact rheumatology journals.

Methods

Payments to US rheumatologists during the 2015-2020 interval were obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments database, and authorships were tallied for calendar year 2021 publications in the four rheumatology journals (Lancet Rheumatol, Nat Rev Rheumatol, Ann Rheum Dis, Arthritis Rheumatol) with the highe

SUBMITTER: Stohl W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10642244 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature