{"pk":17409,"title":"The Association Between Money and Opinion in Academic Emergency Medicine","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Objectives: Financial conflicts of interest have come under increasing scrutiny in medicine, but their impact has not been quantified. Our objective was to use the results of a national survey of academic emergency medicine (EM) faculty to determine if an association between money and personal opinion exists.\n\n\nMethods: We conducted a web-based survey of EM faculty. Opinion questions were analyzed with regard to whether the respondent had either 1) received research grant money or 2) received money from industry as a speaker, consultant, or advisor. Responses were unweighted, and tests of differences in proportions were made using Chi-squared tests, with p<0.05 set for significance.\n\n\nResults: We received responses from 430 members; 98 (23%) received research grants from industry, while 145 (34%) reported fee-for-service money. Respondents with research money were more likely to be comfortable accepting gifts (40% vs. 29%) and acting as paid consultants (50% vs. 37%). They had a more favorable attitude with regard to societal interactions with industry and felt that industry-sponsored lectures could be fair and unbiased (52% vs. 29%). Faculty with fee-for-service money mirrored those with research money. They were also more likely to believe that industry-sponsored research produces fair and unbiased results (61% vs. 45%) and less likely to believe that honoraria biased speakers (49% vs. 69%).\n\n\nConclusion: Accepting money for either service or research identified a distinct population defined by their opinions. Faculty engaged in industry-sponsored research benefitted socially (collaborations), academically (publications), and financially from the relationship. [West J Emerg Med. 2010; 11(2):126-132.]","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Industry"},{"word":"money"},{"word":"Conflict of Interest"},{"word":"Ethics"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qx5z0q2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"H","last_name":"Birkhahn","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York Methodist Hospital","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Andra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Blomkalns","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cincinnati","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Howard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Klausner","name_suffix":"","institution":"Henry Ford Hospital","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nowak","name_suffix":"","institution":"Henry Ford Hospital","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Ali","middle_name":"S","last_name":"Raja","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brigham Women's Hospital","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Summers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Mississippi Medical Center","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jim","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Weber","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan, Hurley Medical Center","department":"None"},{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Briggs","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York Methodist Hospital","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Alp","middle_name":"","last_name":"Arkun","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York Methodist Hospital","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Deborah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Diercks","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Davis Medical Center","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2009-05-11T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2009-05-11T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2010-07-28T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/17409/galley/8856/download/"}]}