Counseling Psychology Department, Applied Ethics Center, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 100 William T Morrissey Blvd, Boston, USA.
Department of Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, 195 Canal Street, Malden, MA, 02148, USA.
Community Ment Health J. 2022 May;58(4):619-623. doi: 10.1007/s10597-021-00906-6. Epub 2021 Nov 8.
While most medical journals require disclosures of industry payments to authors and editors, there is no requirement for textbooks. In this study we evaluated nine well-known psychopharmacology textbooks to identify payments to their writers and editors. Two-thirds of the textbooks had at least one editor or author who received personal payments from one or more pharmaceutical companies, for a total of 11,021,409 USD paid to 11 of 21 editors/authors over a seven-year period. Much of this money was paid to a single author but 24% of the writers received over 75,000 USD each over this time period. There are several psychopharmacology textbooks authored by writers without apparent financial conflicts of interest. Just as with medical journals, medical textbooks should be transparent about payments made to their authors and editors.
虽然大多数医学期刊都要求披露作者和编辑与行业的报酬关系，但教科书却没有这方面的要求。在本研究中，我们评估了九本知名的精神药理学教科书，以确定其作者和编辑的报酬情况。有三分之二的教科书至少有一位编辑或作者从一家或多家制药公司获得个人报酬，在七年期间内，总计有 1102.1409 万美元支付给了 21 位编辑/作者中的 11 位。这笔钱中的大部分支付给了一位作者，但在这段时间内，24%的作者每人收到了超过 75000 美元。有几本精神药理学教科书的作者没有明显的财务利益冲突。就像医学期刊一样，医学教科书也应该对支付给作者和编辑的款项保持透明。
