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Our paper on Conflict of Interest (COI) in invited talks at a surgical meeting was just published in @SurgEndosc - This thread is a quick Twitter summary rdcu.be/bOv1D @AlexLoisMD @saurabh_khand @Chenbariatrics1 @pugel
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There is a lot of great evidence that COI is frequently underreported, with almost every study showing >25% unreported or underreported COI. For example, Olavarria et al showed that of 100 papers in hernia surgery 27% of authors underreported COI. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28167228
There is also good evidence that papers with underreported COI are consistently more favorable to industry. For example, Patel et al showed that studies with undisclosed payments from Intuitive were 4.3X more likely to be recommend robotic surgery ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Quick thread on a FAQ about the #SAGES2018 meeting app. The app is always asking me to login. Why? Which account do I use?
The #SAGES2018 app allows you to login to the app servers. This has several benefits for attendees to the meeting.
First, logged in users can synchronize app data across multiple devices. So if you have a phone and a tablet decide and/or are using the browser version (ep70.eventpilotadmin.com/web/page.php?p…) of the app your personal schedule, notes, and stars will appear on all devices.
