Is It Enough? Disclosure of Medical Industry Payments to Orthopaedic Surgery Journal Editors and the Need for Transparency

Financial COIs existed for some editors at each of the 6 most highly ranked U.S.-based orthopaedic surgery journals. For The Journal of Arthroplasty, the sixth-highest-ranking journal, the majority of the editors and editorial board members had financial COIs. Adverse journal consequences related to financial COIs could be mitigated by enhancing the transparency of disclosures and prominently displaying journal policies for handling COIs on journal websites.