Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3465

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Publication type: Journal Article

Speller DC.
The relationship between the Journal and the pharmaceutical industry.
J Antimicrob Chemother 1987 Jun; 19:(6):711-2

Abstract:

The Journal considers its position and its practices in the light of comments in the Report (1986) of the Royal College of Physicians. Articles all undergo peer review and there can be no doubt of the impartiality with which scientific contributions from workers within the pharmaceutical industry are processed. We have introduced the instructions that sources of financial support should be included in the Acknowledgements section, and approval by an ethical committee of work on human subjects should be stated. Papers are not published if they describe work on human or animal experimentation that would be ethically unacceptable. Advertisements are scrutinised for excessive or unsupported claims. The publishing of supplements on antimicrobial agents under development that are sponsored by the manufacturers has been reviewed previously but the topic is now reconsidered. Extensive details of the stringent rules and procedures applied by the Journal are given. We recognise the intrinsic dangers of sponsorship but believe that supplements are a useful part of the Journal’s role in furthering the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry.

Keywords:
*policy statement & guideline/United Kingdom/ Drug Industry* Great Britain Humans Interprofessional Relations Periodicals*