1. The Association Between Money and Opinion in Academic Emergency Medicine
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Birkhahn, Robert H, Blomkalns, Andra, Klausner, Howard, Nowak, Richard, Raja, Ali S, Summers, Richard, Weber, Jim E, Briggs, William M, Arkun, Alp, and Diercks, Deborah
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Industry ,Money ,Conflict of Interest ,Ethics - Abstract
Objectives: Financial conflicts of interest have come under increasing scrutiny in medicine, but their impact has not been quantified. Our objective was to use the results of a national survey of academic emergency medicine (EM) faculty to determine if an association between money and personal opinion exists.Methods: We conducted a web-based survey of EM faculty. Opinion questions were analyzed with regard to whether the respondent had either 1) received research grant money or 2) received money from industry as a speaker, consultant, or advisor. Responses were unweighted, and tests of differences in proportions were made using Chi-squared tests, with p
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- 2010