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Between The Lines: Navigating The Uncharted Territory Of Industry-Sponsored Research

If you want to keep a secret, put it into your "Information for Authors"; no one ever reads that stuff, goes a joke among medical journal editors. True, that section is dull and full of fussy detail. But it’s also where lurk the heavy-duty ethical issues such as conflict of interest that tend to bite you on the leg if ignored.

And ignore them we could not. In 1995 the report of a large, industry-supported drug trial submitted to Annals of Internal Medicine forced us to rethink our approach to handling industry-project relationships in the clinical research we published. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Catalyst For Change

 

Parsing Relationships

 

Easier Said Than Done

 

Forming Editorial Consensus

 

Truth Finding

 

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