. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2017 May 15;218:18–22. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2017.05.037

Table 3A.

Number and Percentage of Manuscripts Falling into Each COI Disclosure Category per Specialty

	Surgical			Medical
	Orthopedics (n=100)	Cardiac Surgery (n=100)	Otorhino-laryngology (n=100)	Hematology (n=100)	Pulmonology (n=100)	p-value
Full Disclosure	5 (5.0%)	1 (1.0%)	2 (2.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	<0.001
Incomplete Self-Disclosure	54 (54.0%)	67 (67.0%)	42 (42.0%)	75 (75.0%)	54 (54.0%)
Incomplete Industry Disclosure	15 (15.0%)	2 (2.0%)	2 (2.0%)	4 (4.0%)	10 (10.0%)
No COI	26 (26.0%)	30 (30.0%)	54 (54.0%)	21 (21.0%)	36 (36.0%)

COI=Conflicts-of-interest; IQR=Interquartile range

Denotes fields that could not be calculated due to the inability to find the relevant financial information within the OPD.