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A Quantitative Analysis of Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest in Pharmacology Textbooks
<div><p>Background</p><p>Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest (CoI) is a standard practice for many biomedical journals but not for educational materials. The goal of this investigation was to determine whether the authors of pharmacology textbooks have undisclosed financial CoIs and to identify author characteristics associated with CoIs.</p><p>Methods and Findings</p><p>The presence of potential CoIs was evaluated by submitting author names (N = 403; 36.3% female) to a patent database (Google Scholar) as well as a database that reports on the compensation (2,411,080 USD (28.3% for speaking, 27.0% for consulting, and 23.9% for research), was received by 53 authors (Range = 310,000/author). Highly compensated authors were from multiple fields including oncology, psychiatry, neurology, and urology. The maximum number of additional companies, not currently indexed in the Dollars for Docs database, for which an author had potential CoIs was 73.</p><p>Conclusions</p><p>Financial CoIs are common among the authors of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy textbooks. Full transparency of potential CoIs, particularly patents, should become standard procedure for future editions of educational materials in pharmacology.</p></div
Example chapter and patent titles among authors of DiPiro’s Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiological Approach, Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, or Katzung’s Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.
<p>Example chapter and patent titles among authors of DiPiro’s Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiological Approach, Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, or Katzung’s Basic and Clinical Pharmacology.</p
Patents by author characteristics (* <i>P</i> < ·05).
<p>Goodman and Gilman’s Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (G&G PBT), DiPiro’s Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiological Approach: (DiP PAPA), Katzung’s Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (Kat BCP).</p
Compensation received from the top ten authors by funded activity (left) and specific company (right).
<p>Compensation received from the top ten authors by funded activity (left) and specific company (right).</p
Highest academic degree of the authors by textbook.
<p>Highest academic degree of the authors by textbook.</p