Table 4.

Thematic description of personal conflicts of interest situations

Financial Conflict of Interest	Experienced by Investigators		Witnessed in Colleagues Research
	Number (%) (N = 85)	Examples from Free Text Comments	Number (%) (N = 236)	Examples from Free Text Comments
Recruitment	28 (33)	• Pressure to recruit patients	31 (13)	• Investigators receive direct benefit from enrolling patients
Study conduct	20 (24)	• Being asked to have a paper ghost-written	37 (16)	• Review focusing on trials with positive result
Personal financial incentives	9 (11)	• Possible financial gain by success of a drug/study	56 (24)	• Equity holding in a company whose product is being investigated
Conflicting roles	6 (7)	• Invented and patented devices and involved in their study	19 (8)	• Being the site principal investigator and the patient's physician