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Bridget M. Kuehn

JAMA. 2009;301(20):2083.

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In a report released last month, the Institute of Medicine called for a more coordinated effort within the medical profession to police financial conflicts of interest for individuals and institutions (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12598).

The authors suggest that various organizations band together to establish a standard for the content and format of disclosures of financial conflicts of interest and to standardize the related procedures. For example, the report notes that a computer questionnaire could be created that uses prompts to guide individuals through the process for disclosing their financial conflicts of interest; the collected information could then be automatically reformatted to meet the needs of their academic institution, a medical journal, or other interested party.

Additionally, the report urges the US Congress to pass legislation requiring pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies and their foundations to publicly disclose payments to clinicians, researchers, continuing medical education (CME) providers, other . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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