Conflicts of Interests, Authors, and Journals: New Challenges for a Persistent Problem

However, despite the increased awareness of conflicts of interest (COIs) by physicians, emphasis by academic medical centers for faculty physicians to report COIs,24 regulation in the United States with national disclosure of payments from industry to physicians and teaching hospitals (eg, Open Paym...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2018-12, Vol.320 (22), p.2315-2318
Main Authors: Bauchner, Howard, Fontanarosa, Phil B, Flanagin, Annette
Format: Article
Language:English
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Academic publications
Conflicts of interest
Scholarly publishing
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Summary:However, despite the increased awareness of conflicts of interest (COIs) by physicians, emphasis by academic medical centers for faculty physicians to report COIs,24 regulation in the United States with national disclosure of payments from industry to physicians and teaching hospitals (eg, Open Payments),25and tracking of payments to physicians by consumer groups (eg, Dollars for Docs),26 problems with COI reporting by authors of articles published in biomedical journals persist. These problems include failure to disclose financial and other important potential COIs, as well as incomplete disclosures, inconsistent disclosures, and misinterpretation of what represents a relevant disclosure.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2018.17593