Personal Payments from Pharmaceutical Companies to Authors of Oncology Clinical Practice Guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oncologists who author clinical practice guidelines frequently have financial relationships with the pharmaceutical industry. It is unknown whether participation on clinical practice guideline committees is associated with differences in the amounts of industry money received.

Materials and methods

We conducted a nested case-control study from August 2013 to December 2018. We manually abstracted membership records of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Guidelines committees for the 20 most common cancers and linked to Open Payments. The study sample included medical oncologists selected to join an NCCN Guidelines committee ("joiners") during the study period. Joiners were matched 1:2 to medical oncologists who had no participation on NCCN committees (cont

SUBMITTER: Mitchell AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8417859 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature