Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15312

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Publication type: Journal Article

DeAngelis CD, Fontanarosa PB.
Conflicts Over Conflicts of Interest
JAMA 2009 Mar 20; epub
http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/jed90012pap_E1_E3.pdf

Abstract:

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST HAVE TAKEN AN INCREASingly prominent role in politics, business, and medicine. High-profile examples of undisclosed or incompletely reported financial conflicts of
interest have been well publicized. There have been recent investigations by academic centers and lawmakers into unreported conflicts of interest by physicians1,2 and recommendations for more transparent reporting of potential conflicts of interest by faculty and researchers.3,4

Despite this increased attention, episodes of unreported financial conflicts of interest continue to occur. Recently, allegations of unreported financial conflicts of interest by an author of an article in JAMA, circumstances and events related to the investigation of those allegations, and sensationalized media accounts5 regarding communications surrounding reporting of those undisclosed conflicts have generated an inordinate amount of misrepresentation, misunderstanding, and concern.

In the May 28, 2008, issue of JAMA, Robert Robinson,MD, and colleagues published a randomized trial evaluating use of escitalopram and problem-solving therapy for prevention of poststroke depression6…