Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Jessie Bakker

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department: Na

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Philips Respironics

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Salary not from the awardee Institution

The research is to provide data support to a multicenter clinical trial that seeks to determine whether children with mild sleep-disordered breathing (MSDB) benefit from adenotonsillectomy (AT) as defined by improved behavior and attention (primary outcomes) and decreased health care utilization. The company focuses on sleep and respiratory care. The clinical trial supported by the project uses a Respironics actigraph to record a 7-day baseline sleep history. The two arms of the study are (1) surgery and (2) watchful waiting with supportive care (WWSC). Even though the study does not evaluate Respironics’ products, the results would be of interest to a company that makes sleep and respiratory products. If the study shows that surgery does not benefit this patient population, then demand for non-surgical therapies offered by the company may increase, and vice versa, thereby affecting the financial interests of the company.

Listed Research Project
Impact of treatment of mild sleep-disordered breathing on children's health-DCC

Adenotonsillectomy is one of the commonest surgical procedures performed in children, usually for symptoms of obstructed breathing during sleep and snoring, but often without actual obstructive sleep apnea (i.e., those with mild sleep-disordered breathing [MSDB]). However, the effects of surgery on MSDB is not known. This study will evaluate the effects of adenotonsillectomy on behavior, attention and health care utilization in children with MSDB, as well as identify subgroups who are most likely to benefit, thus informing future management approaches of this common pediatric condition and helping to direct resources to those children most likely to benefit.

Filed on December 18, 2017.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Jessie Bakker Brigham and Women's Hospital Conflict of Interest Philips Respironics $150,000 - $199,999
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