American Academy of Ophthalmology Clinical Practice Guidelines and Financial Disclosures —Where Is the Money Going?—Reply

In Reply We want to thank Tinsley et al for directing the JAMA Ophthalmology readership toward considerations when assessing conflicts of interest among physicians. First, regarding physician gender, self-reported identification was not used in our article “Financial Disclosures Reported by Industry Among Authors of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Clinical Practice Guidelines.” Gender was determined using Gender API, an application program interface. Despite its limitations (gender not considered as a spectrum and not self-reported genders), Gender API is widely used in research due to its high accuracy. In our study, Gender API determined the gender of 188 author names: 83 were assigned as women (44.1%) and 105 were assigned as men (55.9%). To follow the recommendations made by Tinsley et al, we manually reviewed the self-reported gen der of authors on the National Provider Index (NPI). NPI outputted 85 women (45.2%) and 103 men (54.8%), which demonstrates that Gender API was 98.9% accurate in our study. Of 188 authors, the gender of 2 authors differed, which did not significantly change our findings nor our conclusions.
Source: JAMA Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Source Type: research