A cross-sectional examination of conflict-of-interest disclosures of physician-authors publishing in high-impact US medical journals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the accuracy of self-reported financial conflict-of-interest (COI) disclosures in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) within the requisite disclosure period prior to article submission.

Design

Cross-sectional investigation.

Data sources

Original clinical-trial research articles published in NEJM (n=206) or JAMA (n=188) from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017; self-reported COI disclosure forms submitted to NEJM or JAMA with the authors' published articles; Open Payments website (from database inception; latest search: August 2019).

Main outcome measures

Financial data reported to Open Payments from 2014 to 2016 (a time pe

SUBMITTER: Baraldi JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9021780 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature