Correlation between financial relationships with commercial interests and research prominence at an oncology meeting.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Little is known about the effects of financial relationships between biomedical researchers and industry (financial conflicts of interest [FCOIs]) on research prominence. We examined the prevalence of FCOIs in oncology and associations between FCOIs and research prominence among abstracts presented at American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meetings.

Methods

We analyzed 20,718 abstracts presented at ASCO meetings in 2006 and 2008 to 2011. Measures included the following: financial relationships, peer review score (PRS), and meeting placement prominence (descending order of prominence: plenary session, clinical science symposium, oral presentation, poster discussion, general posters, and publish only).

Results

Of 20,718 abstracts, 36% reported at le

SUBMITTER: Moy B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3709055 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature