#conflictsofinterest Tag

24 Mar

Posted at 17:37h in Author Interviews, Medical Research Journals, Mental Health Research
[caption id="attachment_72893" align="alignleft" width="200"]MedicalResearch.com Interview with:Francis J. Gesel Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine Scranton, Pennsylvania Francis J. Gesel[/caption] MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Francis J. Gesel Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine Scranton, Pennsylvania MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Conflicts of interest (COIs) in psychiatric research represent a longstanding ethical challenge, given the close relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatry. Journals require authors to disclose these relationships, while the U.S. Open Payments database, created under the Sunshine Act, provides a record of payments from manufacturers to physicians. However, whether physician-authors in psychiatry’s most influential journals consistently disclose these relationships had not been systematically assessed. We focused on the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) and JAMA Psychiatry (JAMA-PSY), two of the highest-impact journals in the field, to evaluate the prevalence and magnitude of undisclosed financial COIs.

11 Oct

Posted at 14:08h in Author Interviews, JAMA, Pharmaceutical Companies
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_63939" align="alignleft" width="200"]David-Dan Nguyen MDCM MPHDoctoral Student Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation and Resident Physician Division of Urology University of Toronto Dr. Nguyen[/caption]

David-Dan Nguyen MDCM MPH Doctoral Student Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation and Resident Physician Division of Urology University of Toronto

MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Peer reviewers are crucial to the academic publishing process. While there’s been significant scrutiny of potential conflicts of interest among authors and editors of major journals, the potential for conflicts of interest among peer reviewers has been relatively unexplored. As such, our study aimed to quantify and characterize industry payments made to peer reviewers of top medical journals—The BMJ, JAMA, The Lancet, and The New England Journal of Medicine—to better understand the extent of these financial relationships.