Table 2. Prevalence of institutional oversight approaches for faculty consulting agreements among schools of medicine and public health a.
Type of oversight | No. | % |
---|---|---|
Mandatory review | 40 | 36% |
All agreements reviewed | 23 | 21% |
Under some circumstances | 17 | 15% |
Optional review available | 40 | 36% |
When faculty member asks, but done purely as a favor | 38 | 34% |
Under some conditions only | 3 | 3% |
No review available | 39 | 35% |
Other approaches | 55 | 49% |
May be included in conflict-of-interest disclosure process | 22 | 20% |
School tries to convert project to sponsored research; only reviews if converted | 13 | 12% |
Addendum provisions required to be included | 7 | 6% |
Addendum available listing recommended provisions | 7 | 6% |
Other | 5 | 5% |
a Denominator for proportions (112) is the number of “affiliated schools” (universities where a single administrator handled matters for 2 or more schools) plus the number of “unaffiliated” schools of medicine plus the number of “unaffiliated” schools of public health. Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding or because response categories were not mutually exclusive (e.g., 7 schools coupled mandatory review for some types of agreements with optional review for others).