Follow the money: Investigating gender disparity in industry payments among senior academics and leaders in plastic surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Differences in academic qualifications are cited as the reason behind the documented gender gap in industry sponsorship to academic plastic surgeons. Gendered imbalances in academic metrics narrow among senior academic plastic surgeons. However, it is unknown whether this gender parity translates to industry payments.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of industry payments disbursed to plastic surgeons in 2018. Inclusion criteria encompassed (i) faculty with the rank of professor or a departmental leadership position. Exclusion criteria included faculty (i) who belonged to a speciality besides plastic surgery; (ii) whose gender could not be determined; or (iii) whose name could not be located on the Open Payment Database. Faculty and title were iden

SUBMITTER: Ngaage LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7769471 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature