Managing Financial Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research

Managing financial conflict of interest in biomedical research.

AS THE NATION’S BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AGENCY, THE National Institutes of Health (NIH) must ensure that the research it funds on the behalf of US tax­ payers is scientifically rigorous and free of bias. Over the course of more than 65 years and hundreds of thou­ sands of awards, most researchers receiving funds from NIH have proved to be trustworthy stewards. Still, more must be done to retain, an...

Conflict of interest in biomedical research.

The Prevalence of Conflict of Interest Disclosures in Biomedical Research

Design We randomly sampled articles in Medline published from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2016, in journals following the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). There were no language restrictions. Non–peer-reviewed articles, including letters and news stories, were excluded. We developed a coding manual to classify the reported conflicts of inte...

Managing Conflict of Interest in Service Composition

Web services can be composed of other services in a highly dynamic manner. The existing role based authorization approaches have not adequately taken component services into account when managing access control for composite services. In this paper, we propose a service oriented conceptual model as an extension of role based access control that can facilitate the administration and management o...

Conflicts of interest in biomedical research.

FINANCIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN ACADEMIC BIOmedical research first entered the public consciousness during the 1980s, along with a series of widely publicized episodes of scientific misconduct. In some of these episodes, faculty investigators were accused of having fabricated or falsified research data on therapeutic products in which they had substantial financial interests. The linkage was...