Skip to main content
. 2018 Oct 29;13(10):e0203179. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203179

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).