Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Guidelines: Lack of Authors and Disclosures in the AAOMS White Papers

Publication date: Available online 2 March 2018
Source:Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Author(s): Yisi D. Ji, Edward T. Lahey
PurposeThe purpose of this study was to evaluate current state of authorship, financial disclosures, and conflicts of interest in position papers published by the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS).MethodsThis is a cross-sectional review of the position papers published by the AAOMS from 2013 to 2017. Primary outcome variables include the position papers published by the AAOMS. Secondary outcome variables include declaration of authorship and financial disclosures, and financial payments. The Open Payments Database for financial disclosures was reviewed for the year the position paper was published as well as the immediate preceding year.ResultsThe results of this study revealed there were 10 position papers published by the AAOMS from 2013 to 2017. Of the 10 papers, authorship was listed in 3, and none explicitly address the presence or absence of financial disclosures or conflicts of interest. Contributors to 3 of the 3 authored papers were found upon review of the Open Payments Database to have received industry funding in both the year the position paper was published and the immediate preceding year. The remuneration ranged from less than $1000 to $554,006.02.ConclusionPosition papers published by AAOMS lack standardization with regards to both authorship and statements on potential financial disclosure. The authors suggest full disclosures of authorship and their conflicts of interest should be made on all position papers to provide transparency to the process.



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