Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4191

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Publication type: Journal Article

Hillman AL, Eisenberg JM, Pauly MV, Bloom BS, Glick H, Kinosian B, Schwartz JS.
Potential for bias in economic analyses
New England Journal of Medicine 1991; 325:1385

Abstract:

Some pharmaceutical companies have not been supportive of the effort to establish joint standards for economic analysis and some private-sector researchers and consultants have suggested that their fiduciary responsibility to their clients dominates their responsbilibity to science and society.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/United States/conflict of interest/ pharmacoeconomic analysis/ academic freedom/ drug company sponsored research/ relationship between researchers, academic institutions and industry/INFORMATION FROM INDUSTRY: PHARMACOECONOMIC ANALYSIS/SPONSORSHIP: RESEARCH