Bruton Samuel V, Sacco Donald F, Didlake Ralph
The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA
The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA.
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2016 Apr;11(2):165-9. doi: 10.1177/1556264616636748. Epub 2016 Mar 23.
Peer assessments of researchers' financial conflicts of interest (FCOIs) are crucial to effective FCOI management. We sought to determine how academics perceive FCOI disclosure and whether their perceptions vary depending on discipline and educational backgrounds. Participants (faculty and staff members from a multi-disciplinary academic medical center) responded to a questionnaire involving 10 hypothetical scenarios in which researchers either disclosed or failed to disclose a financial conflict (between-participants manipulation). Participants viewed disclosure as important and believed that researchers' objectivity would be affected by undisclosed FCOIs. In contrast to non-physicians, physicians showed greater recognition that the existence of an FCOI does not depend on its disclosure. This suggests that physicians are relatively well informed about FCOIs, which is likely attributable to more education about them.
对研究人员财务利益冲突（FCOI）的同行评估对于有效的FCOI管理至关重要。我们试图确定学者们如何看待FCOI披露，以及他们的看法是否因学科和教育背景而异。参与者（来自一个多学科学术医疗中心的教职员工）回答了一份问卷，其中包含10个假设情景，在这些情景中，研究人员要么披露了财务冲突，要么没有披露（参与者间的操纵）。参与者认为披露很重要，并相信未披露的FCOI会影响研究人员的客观性。与非医生相比，医生更清楚地认识到FCOI的存在并不取决于其披露情况。这表明医生对FCOI相对了解较多，这可能归因于对它们有更多的相关教育。
