Premium
The disclosure slide—Informative or obligatory, 5 years of SSO Cancer Symposium oral presentations
Author(s) -
Merritt William,
Robergé Bouchard David,
Ford Candice,
Lozano Alicia,
Xu Yang,
Hanlon Alexandra,
Petrelli Nicholas,
Tiesi Gregory
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.26456
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval
Background Financial disclosure (FD) highlights potential conflicts of interest but is often overlooked at academic conferences. Methods Retrospective review of 2015–2019 Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium oral presentation slide and/or verbal FD frequency, duration, and content. Results Of 963 presentations, 331 (34%) omitted disclosure slide/verbalization. 575 (60%) included a slide, 551 (57%) gave verbal disclosure and 133 (14%) stated relevance. 164 presentations (17%) cited 1 + FD. 2019 had greater median FDs/talk than 2015–2018 (3.50 vs. 2.00; p = .010). Compared to 2015–2018, 2019 yielded shorter median slide display of all disclosures (2.00 s vs. 2.47 s; p = .006), median 1 + FD display (3.37 s vs. 4.81 s; p = .04) and median 1 + FD verbalization (2.81 s vs. 3.66 s; p = .54). 2019 all disclosure verbalization increased (1.97 s vs. 1.14 s; p < .001). Multivariable modeling showed longer display with 2015–2018 (+1.3 s, 95% confidence interval [CI] −0.06 to 2.5 s, p = .04), <4 authors (+3.2 s, 95% CI: 2.1–4.3 s; p < .001) and longer verbalization with 2019 (+0.8 s, 95% CI: 0.2–1.4 s; p = .01), relevance (+1.0 s, 95% CI: 0.4–1.6 s; p = .002), ≤ 4 authors (+0.8 s, 95% CI: 0.3–1.3 s, p < .001) and noncommercial FD (+3.8 s, 95% CI: 2.0–5.0 s; p < .001). The five most cited commercial entities were in 39% of talks. Conclusion Presenters' FDs were brief or omitted. Despite FD increase, disclosure time decreased. Improved FD attention will highlight potential COIs.