Investigation of Financial Conflict of Interest among Published Ventral Hernia Research

摘要

BACKGROUND: Discordance exists between author self-disclosure and the Open Payments Database in various surgical fields, but the effects of this discordance on study design and presentation are unknown. We hypothesized that, among ventral hernia publications, discordance exists between industry and physician self-reported conflicts of interest ( COIs); authors disclose relevant COIs; and disclosure and relevant COIs affect study favorability.