Although proper physician-industry financial relationships are essential for improving patient
care, they can also cause potential conflicts of interest. However, little is known about the …

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) inform the practice of medicine, dictate delivery of care,
and influence resource distribution. CPGs are developed by subject-matter experts using the …

Objective: To characterize industry nonresearch payments made to general and fellowship-
trained surgeons between 2016 and 2020. Background: The Centers for Medicare & …

Objectives: To assess the gender composition of upper-level specialty-specific editor
positions among United States (US) medical society-affiliated journals and to evaluate the …

Objectives To evaluate the gender composition of departmental chairs and program
leadership of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education–accredited pathology …

METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, editorial board members were derived from the top
10 neurosurgery journals based on Google Scholar metrics. The Open Payments database …

OBJECTIVE Industry partnerships help advance the field of neurosurgery. Given the nature
of the field and its close relationship with innovation, neurosurgeons frequently partner with …

Objective To evaluate the extent of payments from medical device and pharmaceutical
companies to editorial board members of leading otolaryngology journals. Methods Editorial …

Objectives Gender equity studies have shown that women are underrepresented in journal
editor in chief positions, which confer major professional opportunities and influence. We …

Was there a “quid pro quo”? I do not know, but I am worried. Many years ago, when I was the
editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Vice President …