Conflict of Interest in Medical Practice and Research

Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice

Concerns about the potentially corrupting influence of private industry on medical research, education, and practice have been growing since the 1970s, when the U.S. Congress passed the first anti-kickback law applying to medicine. Since then, Congress has banned self-referrals in medicine, enacted laws that regulate the commercialization of publicly funded biomedical research, and held hearing...

Conflict of interest in medical journals.

Conflict of interest (COI) affects every aspect of medicine, including clinical care, teaching, and research. According to one definition, “A conflict of interest exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients' welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain). Perceptions of conflict of interest are as imp...

Conflict of interest in biomedical research.

Conflict of interest in human subjects research.

Policy: The NJIT Institutional Review Board (IRB) is committed to assuring that researchers fulfill the public’s trust in the research enterprise by putting the welfare of research participants ahead of the interests of the institution or of the researcher’s personal financial interests. Financial interests are not prohibited, and not all financial interests cause conflicts of interest or affec...

Conflict of interest in clinical research

In clinical research there is a real possibility to have some conflict of interests. Even for the researcher, the identification of these conflicts cannot be clear. There are many aspects to be considered, involving all participants of the process: the research subject, the researcher, the institution where the research is carried through, the sponsor, the ethics committees, the regulating agen...