Current Levels of Conflict of Interest Disclosure in Medical Publications from Korea.
10.3346/jkms.2013.28.7.978
- Author:
Bo Hyoung KANG
1
;
Jae Young MOON
;
Youjin CHANG
;
Young Mo KOO
;
Younsuck KOH
Author Information
1. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. yskoh@amc.seoul.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Conflict of Interest;
Biomedical Research;
Ethical Analysis;
Editorial Policies
- MeSH:
*Conflict of Interest;
Disclosure/*ethics;
Editorial Policies;
Periodicals as Topic/ethics;
Publishing/ethics;
Republic of Korea
- From:Journal of Korean Medical Science
2013;28(7):978-982
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Medical research should be fully transparent. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of author-related conflict of interest (COI) policies and evaluate the actual state of COI disclosure in Korean medical journals. To determine the prevalence of author-related COI policies, we examined the 198 medical journals listed in the KoreaMed database. To investigate the actual state of COI disclosures in published papers, we analyzed the publications in a representative medical journal, the Journal of the Korean Medical Science, from the perspective of the relevance of the ethics of COI disclosure. A total of 164 (82.8%) journals required an author's statement of COI as a criterion for publication. Of these 164, most of them focused on financial COI, with 101 (61.6%) presenting the information related to COI disclosures as a separate paragraph with a clear title. We identified 114 articles published by the Journal of the Korean Medical Science over a seven-year period, from January, 2006 to December, 2012. Of these, 65 papers (57%) included an author's statement of COI. We found that the policies of Korean medical journals regarding the disclosure of author COIs are still behind the internationally suggested level.
