Radiology Business March 20, 2024
Interventional radiologists and other endovascular specialists are not adequately disclosing their financial conflicts of interest on social media, according to new research published Tuesday.
Across 80 posts containing a mention of 100 specific devices or companies on X (formerly Twitter), such conflicts were present about 53% of the time. When mentioning a specific product, about 40% of IR specialists and 62% of neurosurgeons had a conflict of interest, experts wrote in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
Without adequate disclosures, researchers contend that other physicians and patients reading such social media posts cannot weigh the possible bias for themselves.
“When it comes to social media, physicians should apply the same principles of disclosure that they do to academic publications,...
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