Association of Scholarly Impact to Industrial Contributions Among Academic Interventional Radiologists.
J Am Coll Radiol
; 2024 Jun 26.
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| ID: mdl-38942162
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The Physician Sunshine Act of 2010 aimed to increase public awareness of physician-industry relationships. Our objective was to evaluate whether there is an association between scholarly impact and industry funding among academic interventional radiologists.METHODS:
A database from a prior study with our group was used in which we had investigated H-indices among US interventional radiologists; academic rank, gender, institution, and geographic location were obtained. The Scopus database was queried to determine all physicians' H-index. The CMS Open Payments database was used to determine industry payments from 2015 to 2021 for each interventional radiologist.RESULTS:
H-index and professor rank positively and significantly correlated with industrial funding (H-index coefficient = $6,977, P < .001 and professor rank coefficient = $183,902, P = .003). Industry funding was found to be significantly different between all ranks. Among 830 academic interventional radiologists, the mean industrial funding of male physicians was $130,034, which was significantly higher than female physicians' $28,166 (P = .00013). By academic rank, male primary investigators of associate professor and unranked position had higher industrial funding than female primary investigators (Wilcoxon test, P = .029 and P= .039, respectively). Professor and assistant professor ranks had no significant difference in industrial funding between male and female physicians (Wilcoxon's test, P = .080 and P = .053, respectively).CONCLUSION:
Scholarly activity as defined by the H-index and academic rank seem to have a positive association with industry funding of academic interventional radiologists.
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Language:
En
Journal:
J Am Coll Radiol
Journal subject:
RADIOLOGIA
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
United States