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

Table 3B.

Financial Payments for Authors Falling into each COI Disclosure Category per Specialty [USD; Median (IQR)]

	Surgical			Medical
	Orthopedics (n=496)	Cardiac Surgery (n=548)	Otorhino-laryngology (n=509)	Hematology (n=737)	Pulmonology (n=608)	p-value
Full Disclosure	$10,500 (9,093–25,875)	$67,233 (13,120–181,643)	$8,152 (500–15,805)	$106,183 (2,000–200,000)	$21,044 (7,950–30,928)	0.34
Incomplete Self-Disclosure	$7,387 (1,920–38,283)	$15,965 (4,229–104,598)	$3,000 (446–14,240)	$30,812 (7,122–145,087)	$24,277 (4,260–119,917)	<0.001
Incomplete Industry Disclosure	NA^*	NA^*	NA^*	NA^*	NA^*	NA^*
No COI	NA^*	NA^*	NA^*	NA^*	NA^*	NA^*

COI=Conflicts-of-interest; IQR=Interquartile range USD=United States Dollars

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