Managing institutional conflicts: Stakeholder accounts of communication between conflict of interest and technology transfer offices.

Autor: McCoy MS; Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.; Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Ward M; Mixed Methods Research Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Neergaard R; Mixed Methods Research Lab, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Joffe S; Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.; Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.; Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America., Szymczak JE; Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Aug 07; Vol. 19 (8), pp. e0304519. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 07 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304519
Abstrakt: There have been repeated calls for academic institutions to develop policies and procedures to manage institutional conflicts of interest (ICOI) arising from technology transfer activities. While prior research has examined adoption of ICOI policies by medical schools and universities, little is known about how these institutions handle ICOI in practice, hindering the development of evidence-based recommendations to improve ICOI management. To address this gap, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 senior administrators responsible for research integrity and conflict of interest issues at academic institutions. Data were analyzed using a descriptive qualitative content analysis approach, combining flexible coding to index the interview data with close examination, interpretation, and synthesis of coded content. Participants identified communication and information sharing between conflict of interest (COI) and technology transfer (TT) offices as a critical factor in the effective management of ICOI and suggested several strategies to strengthen coordination between these offices. These findings suggest that academic research institutions could strengthen COI programs by taking measures to improve communication and information sharing between COI and TT offices.
Competing Interests: To confirm, Dr. Joffe serves a paid member of a data safety and monitoring board for CSL Behring (he is not an employee of the company) and the role on the DSMB is outside the context of the current study. I do not believe it would be appropriate to include a funding statement confirming that CSL Behring played no role in the study, as they did not fund any aspect of the study. Based on journal guidelines (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/submit-now), I believe this information should instead go in a competing interests statement, which we have added to the manuscript. If this needs to be revised please let us know.
(Copyright: © 2024 McCoy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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