Assessment of Conflicts of Interest in Robotic Surgical Studies: Validating Author's Declarations with the Open Payments Database

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 86-92

  Patel, Sunil V ^a,b,c   Yu, David ^a   Elsolh, Basheer ^b   Goldacre, Ben M ^c   Nash, Garrett M ^d  

^a KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

conflict of interest; open payments database; payments; robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DATA BASE; FUNDING; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL FEE; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ROBOT ASSISTED SURGERY; UROLOGIC SURGERY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85023162598     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002420     Document Type: Article

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