Financial conflicts of interest of clinicians making submissions to the panCanadian Oncology Drug Review: a descriptive study

Objectives: This study examines financial conflict-of-interest (FCOI) of clinicians who made submissions to the panCanadian Oncology Drug Review (pCODR), the arm of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health that recommends whether oncology drug-indications should be publicly funded. Final reports from pCODR published between October 2016 and February 2019 were examined. Design: Descriptive study. Data sources: Website of panCanadian Oncology Drug Review. Interventions: None. Primary and secondary outcomes: The primary outcome is the number of submissions declaring FCOI. Secondary outcomes are the number of times where clinicians agreed and disagreed with preliminary recommendation from pCODR and the association between the distribution of individual clinicians’ FCOI and pCODR’s funding recommendations. Results: There were 46 drug-indication reports from pCODR. Clinicians made 261 submissions. Clinicians declared they received payments from companies 323 times and named 38 d...