Industry Compensation to Physician Vascular Specialist Authors of Highly-referenced Aortic Aneurysm Studies

Bellomo, Tiffany R.; Hwang, Charles; Kim, Gloria; Osborne, Nicholas H.; Spector‐Bagdady, Kayte; Stanley, James C.; Corriere, Matthew A.

doi:10.1016/j.avsg.2021.01.103

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“…9 Within different subspecialties, we found higher rates of discordant discourse, ranging from 58% in hand surgery literature 10 to 86% in vascular surgery. 11,12 While microwave technology has a relatively narrow scope of use, our study suggests that surgical oncology researchers may be less impacted by industry sponsorship. For liver cancer, the current modalities of treatment include chemotherapy or immunotherapy, surgical resection, and ablation therapy for small or unresectable tumors.…”

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Hepatic Ablation Technology: Assessment of Conflicts of Interest in Recent Literature

Kooragayala,

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The American Surgeon™

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Introduction Collaboration between the health care industry and surgeons is critical in modern medicine. Conflict of interest (COI) has the risk of introducing bias into research studies. We investigated the accuracy of self-disclosed COI for studies that researched the use of microwave ablation for liver metastasis. Methods A literature search identified studies that investigated the use of microwave ablation for liver cancer between 2016 and 2022. We utilized the Open Payments Database to query individual authors’ financial contributions from the industry. The accuracy of the disclosure statement and financial contribution for each study and author was calculated. We compared the amount of financial contribution authors received based on the accuracy of their COI statement. Results Twenty-five studies of interest were identified. The mean number of authors was 8.24. A disclosure statement was present in 52% of studies. Of those, 28% had an incongruent disclosure statement. 9/25 (36%) of studies had a conflict of interest based on financial payments provided by industry. Overall, authors received an average of $440,483.41 (SD $1,889,375.34). We did not find a difference in the financial contribution’s value based on the disclosure statement’s accuracy ( P = .55). Conclusions Over a quarter of studies in our review of microwave ablation literature had discrepancies in the reporting of conflicts of interest, highlighting the need for improved reporting of potential conflicts of interest to protect the integrity of clinical research. Compared to other fields of surgery, we found a lower rate of undisclosed COI, suggesting that the scope of cancer-directed surgery may be more resistant to industry influence.

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confidence: 88%

“…9 Within different subspecialties, we found higher rates of discordant discourse, ranging from 58% in hand surgery literature 10 to 86% in vascular surgery. 11,12…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%