COIs in Medicine: A Broken System

Vincent Rajkumar (@VincentRK), MD, hematologist at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), shares the distinction between conflicts of interest that guide individual physicians and those that guide entire practices, what types of conflicts should be collected as “material” and which should be disregarded (eg, “transfer of value” payments), issues with disclosure expectations in modern medical research, and an idea to create standards for more appropriate and warranted disclosures. Watch a previous discussion Chadi had with Dr. Rajkumar on conflicts of interest https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/924320