Discordance of conflict of interest self-disclosure and the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Open Payments Database (OPD) discloses financial transactions between manufacturers and physicians. The concordance of OPD versus self-reported conflicts of interest (COI) is unknown.

Materials and methods

Our objectives were to compare (1) industry and self-disclosed COI in clinical literature, (2) payments within each disclosure level, and (3) industry- and self-disclosed COI and payments by specialty. This was an observational study. PubMed was searched for clinical studies accepted for publication from January 2014 to June 2016. Author and OPD-disclosed COIs were compared. Articles and authors were divided into full disclosure, incomplete industry disclosure, incomplete self-disclosure, and no COI. Primary outcome (differences in reported COI per article)

SUBMITTER: Cherla DV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5643021 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature