TY  - JOUR
T1  - Interest in Conflicts
AU  - Tolo, Vernon T.
Y1  - 2011/01/05
N1  - 10.2106/JBJS.931edit
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - 1
EP  - 1
VL  - 93
IS  - 1
N2  - 
Orthopaedics in general, and highly-compensated orthopaedists in particular, have come into the spotlight related to potential conflicts of interest. Studies have indicated that there has been inconsistent reporting of many potential conflicts, both by speakers at annual society meetings and by authors in orthopaedic journals. An article in the Archives of Internal Medicine in September 2010 reported a 46% nondisclosure rate of potential conflicts of interest among thirty-two orthopaedic surgeons whose work had been published in twenty-six orthopaedic-related journals and who were known to have been paid over $1 million in the year prior to the article's publication1. A 2009 report that noted a 29% rate of nondisclosure among presenters and board and committee members at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the AAOS2 led to a mandatory disclosure policy for presenters and board and committee members before AAOS participation is allowed3. One part of the recent health-care reform bill requires industry, beginning in 2013, to publicly report all payments to physicians over $10 or over $100 in a year.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 10.2106/JBJS.931edit
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.931edit
ER  -