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Undisclosed conflicts of interest among biomedical textbook authors.
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- A Quantitative and Narrative Evaluation of Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Conflicts of interest among dermatology textbook authors.International journal of women's dermatology · 2019Review
- Naturalistic Evaluation of Pharmacotherapy Consultations Provided to Hospital Clinicians: A Developing Country's Perspective.The Journal of pharmacy technology : jPT : official publication of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundTextbooks are a formative resource for health care providers during their education and are also an enduring reference for pathophysiology and treatment. Unlike the primary literature and clinical guidelines, biomedical textbook authors do not typically disclose potential financial conflicts of interest (pCoIs). The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the authors of textbooks used in the training of physicians, pharmacists, and dentists had appreciable undisclosed pCoIs in the form of patents or compensation received from pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies.
methodsThe most recent editions of six medical textbooks, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (
resultsAuthors were listed as inventors on 677 patents (maximum/author = 23), with three-quarters (74.9%) to
conclusionAn appreciable subset of biomedical authors have patents and have received remuneration from medical product companies and this information is not disclosed to readers. These findings indicate that full transparency of financial pCoI should become a standard practice among the authors of biomedical educational materials.
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