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Association between Industry Funding and Academic Productivity among Dermatology Faculty
Accepted Manuscript Association between Industry Funding and Academic Productivity among Dermatology Faculty Kyle C. Lauck, BS, Quoc-Bao D. Nguyen, MD, Daniel A. Grabell, MD MBA, Mary D. DarConte, MD, Adelaide A. Hebert, MD PII:
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2019.06.1311
Reference:
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To appear in:
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Received Date: 31 August 2018 Revised Date:
29 May 2019
Accepted Date: 29 June 2019
Please cite this article as: Lauck KC, Nguyen Q-BD, Grabell DA, DarConte MD, Hebert AA, Association between Industry Funding and Academic Productivity among Dermatology Faculty, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2019.06.1311. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
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Article type: Research Letter Title: Association between Industry Funding and Academic Productivity among Dermatology Faculty
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Authors: Kyle C. Lauck, BS,1 Quoc-Bao D. Nguyen, MD,2 Daniel A. Grabell, MD MBA,2 Mary D. DarConte, MD,2 Adelaide A. Hebert, MD2 Originating Institutions: 1UTHealth McGovern Medical School at Houston 2Department of Dermatology, UTHealth McGovern Medical School at Houston
Funding sources: None Conflicts of Interest: None declared.
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Corresponding Author Adelaide A. Hebert, M.D. Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics UTHealth McGovern Medical School at Houston 6655 Travis St., Suite 980 Houston, TX 77030 Phone: 713-500-8260 Fax: 713-524-3432 Email: [email protected]
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Manuscript word count: 471 words Figures: 2 References: 5 Keywords: industry; funding; academic dermatology; h-index; scholarly impact
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To the Editor: In recent years as NIH funding has become constricted, there has been a shift from NIH funded research towards research funded by private industry across multiple fields of medicine.1 Since 2010 the Physician Payments Sunshine Act has required private industry to keep track of payments made to physicians, attempting to bring transparency to financial relationships between industries and physicians. These financial ties are then reported by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) on their website (www.cms.gov). The availability of this data has prompted multiple disciplines to investigate the impact these payments have on their respective fields.2,3
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Although Dermatology has reflected upon the impact of the Physicians Payments Sunshine Act,4 there have been no publication of industry funding in relation to scholarly impact in Dermatology. The aim of this study was to determine the percentage of academic Dermatologists receiving private industry funding and to evaluate whether receiving private industry funding statistically significantly correlates with academic productivity for Academic Dermatology.
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We performed a cross-sectional analysis of academic dermatologists identified from department websites of ACGME accredited Dermatology residency programs. Data on individual-level private industry funding were obtained from the CMS open payments database. Individual bibliometric data (h-indices) were obtained from the Scopus database. The h-index is a metric of scholarly impact based on publication frequency and the number of times a given publication has been cited for each physician.5 Two-tailed unpaired t tests with an alpha of 0.05 were performed during analysis of the data.
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Per CMS definitions, the CMS Open Payments database classifies payments into three subtypes: general payments which are “payments that are not associated with a research study,” research payments which are “payments that are associated with a research study,” and associated research funding which are payments that are “funding for a research project or study where the physician is named as the principal investigator.”
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A total of 1,737 academic Dermatologists were identified from data collection in 2018. Out of the 1,737 Academic Dermatologists, 65% received some form of industry support (Figure 1). Out of those individuals who received some form of industry support, 12% received industry funding for the purposes of research. Those who received any industry funding for the purposes of research had a higher h-index (p<0.0001) compared to those who did not receive industry funding for the purposes of research. (Figure 2). Our study provides a correlation between scholarly impact and private research funding in Academic Dermatology. Limitations of this study include other confounding variables, such as alternative NIH funding and other non-industry funding that certainly have contributed to academic productivity. Furthermore, academic physicians may not receive the private industry funding directly; the funding may be directed to their respective department or academic institution. Future studies would include more sophisticated modeling accounting for other variables to ascertain the temporal relationship between industry support and academic productivity.
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REFERENCES 1. Ehrhardt S, Appel LJ, Meinert CL. Trends in National Institutes of Health Funding for Clinical Trials Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov. JAMA. 2015;314(23):2566-2567. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.12206 2. Chao AH, Gangopadhyay N. Industry Financial Relationships in Plastic Surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2016;138(2):341e-348e. doi:10.1097/PRS.0000000000002404 3. Svider PF, Mauro KM, Sanghvi S, Setzen M, Baredes S, Eloy JA. Is NIH funding predictive of greater research productivity and impact among academic otolaryngologists? Laryngoscope. 2013;123(1):118-122. doi:10.1002/lary.23659 4. Feng H, Wu P, Leger M. Exploring the Industry-Dermatologist Financial Relationship. JAMA Dermatology. 2016;152(12):1307. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2016.3037 5. Hirsch JE. An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2005;102(46):16569-16572. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102
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FIGURE LEGEND Figure 1. Percentage of academic Dermatologists receiving no industry support, any industry support, and industry support for the purposes of research. Figure 2. Academic productivity for academic Dermatologists funded or not funded by general payments, research payments, and associated research funding.
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S0190-9622(19)32368-0
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2019.06.1311
Reference:
YMJD 13617
To appear in:
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Received Date: 31 August 2018 Revised Date:
29 May 2019
Accepted Date: 29 June 2019
Please cite this article as: Lauck KC, Nguyen Q-BD, Grabell DA, DarConte MD, Hebert AA, Association between Industry Funding and Academic Productivity among Dermatology Faculty, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2019.06.1311. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
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Article type: Research Letter Title: Association between Industry Funding and Academic Productivity among Dermatology Faculty
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Authors: Kyle C. Lauck, BS,1 Quoc-Bao D. Nguyen, MD,2 Daniel A. Grabell, MD MBA,2 Mary D. DarConte, MD,2 Adelaide A. Hebert, MD2 Originating Institutions: 1UTHealth McGovern Medical School at Houston 2Department of Dermatology, UTHealth McGovern Medical School at Houston
Funding sources: None Conflicts of Interest: None declared.
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Corresponding Author Adelaide A. Hebert, M.D. Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics UTHealth McGovern Medical School at Houston 6655 Travis St., Suite 980 Houston, TX 77030 Phone: 713-500-8260 Fax: 713-524-3432 Email: [email protected]
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Reprint requests: Adelaide A. Hebert, M.D.
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Manuscript word count: 471 words Figures: 2 References: 5 Keywords: industry; funding; academic dermatology; h-index; scholarly impact
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To the Editor: In recent years as NIH funding has become constricted, there has been a shift from NIH funded research towards research funded by private industry across multiple fields of medicine.1 Since 2010 the Physician Payments Sunshine Act has required private industry to keep track of payments made to physicians, attempting to bring transparency to financial relationships between industries and physicians. These financial ties are then reported by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) on their website (www.cms.gov). The availability of this data has prompted multiple disciplines to investigate the impact these payments have on their respective fields.2,3
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Although Dermatology has reflected upon the impact of the Physicians Payments Sunshine Act,4 there have been no publication of industry funding in relation to scholarly impact in Dermatology. The aim of this study was to determine the percentage of academic Dermatologists receiving private industry funding and to evaluate whether receiving private industry funding statistically significantly correlates with academic productivity for Academic Dermatology.
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We performed a cross-sectional analysis of academic dermatologists identified from department websites of ACGME accredited Dermatology residency programs. Data on individual-level private industry funding were obtained from the CMS open payments database. Individual bibliometric data (h-indices) were obtained from the Scopus database. The h-index is a metric of scholarly impact based on publication frequency and the number of times a given publication has been cited for each physician.5 Two-tailed unpaired t tests with an alpha of 0.05 were performed during analysis of the data.
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Per CMS definitions, the CMS Open Payments database classifies payments into three subtypes: general payments which are “payments that are not associated with a research study,” research payments which are “payments that are associated with a research study,” and associated research funding which are payments that are “funding for a research project or study where the physician is named as the principal investigator.”
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A total of 1,737 academic Dermatologists were identified from data collection in 2018. Out of the 1,737 Academic Dermatologists, 65% received some form of industry support (Figure 1). Out of those individuals who received some form of industry support, 12% received industry funding for the purposes of research. Those who received any industry funding for the purposes of research had a higher h-index (p<0.0001) compared to those who did not receive industry funding for the purposes of research. (Figure 2). Our study provides a correlation between scholarly impact and private research funding in Academic Dermatology. Limitations of this study include other confounding variables, such as alternative NIH funding and other non-industry funding that certainly have contributed to academic productivity. Furthermore, academic physicians may not receive the private industry funding directly; the funding may be directed to their respective department or academic institution. Future studies would include more sophisticated modeling accounting for other variables to ascertain the temporal relationship between industry support and academic productivity.
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REFERENCES 1. Ehrhardt S, Appel LJ, Meinert CL. Trends in National Institutes of Health Funding for Clinical Trials Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov. JAMA. 2015;314(23):2566-2567. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.12206 2. Chao AH, Gangopadhyay N. Industry Financial Relationships in Plastic Surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2016;138(2):341e-348e. doi:10.1097/PRS.0000000000002404 3. Svider PF, Mauro KM, Sanghvi S, Setzen M, Baredes S, Eloy JA. Is NIH funding predictive of greater research productivity and impact among academic otolaryngologists? Laryngoscope. 2013;123(1):118-122. doi:10.1002/lary.23659 4. Feng H, Wu P, Leger M. Exploring the Industry-Dermatologist Financial Relationship. JAMA Dermatology. 2016;152(12):1307. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2016.3037 5. Hirsch JE. An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2005;102(46):16569-16572. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102
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FIGURE LEGEND Figure 1. Percentage of academic Dermatologists receiving no industry support, any industry support, and industry support for the purposes of research. Figure 2. Academic productivity for academic Dermatologists funded or not funded by general payments, research payments, and associated research funding.
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