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Erdem I. Cantekin, PhD; Timothy W. McGuire, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pa

Robert L. Potter, JD
Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Potter Pittsburgh, Pa

JAMA. 1990;264(24):3144-3145.

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The manuscript in question was originally drafted by Dr Cantekin as a competing analysis of the AB-OME-I data for consideration within the Otitis Media Research Center. At the time, Dr Cantekin was the director of research of the Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology at Children's Hospital. Drs Bluestone and Mandel, who were listed as first and second authors, rejected Dr Cantekin's analysis and instead sent their own manuscript, Mandel et al, to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) as the report of the Otitis Media Research Center.

Dr Cantekin revised his manuscript with statistical assistance from Dr McGuire, deputy dean of the GSTA at Carnegie Mellon University. That manuscript was sent to the NEJM with a cover letter in which "(1) Cantekin referred to the OMRC [Otitis Media Research Center] manuscript submitted the month before... (2) Cantekin stated that he was a coinvestigator who had not succeeded . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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