Just before the Christmas holidays, Iris was standing at the reception desk waiting to book a continuing-care appointment with Dr. Smith. In walked a deliveryman carrying 2 beautiful gift baskets. While the receptionist was signing for the basket, Iris asked the FedEx man if the gift was from a happy patient. “No,” he replied, “they’re both from the orthodontist down the road. I was told not to...

It turned out that I knew enough to be a decent referee. Still, my memories of refereeing are not happy. I wanted to be fair, but I could not just "bend over backward" to be fair to the others; that would not have been fair to my son or his team. If I could not bend over backward to be fair, what was I to do? How could I look over that field of boys running, kicking, and yelling without seeing ...

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...

Conflict of interest is common in the practice of medicine, and likely more so in the practice of sports medicine at the highest levels of competition. Two areas where conflict of interest frequently manifest in sports medicine are confidentiality and clinical decision making. Confidentiality can be challenging by the team physician's dual responsibilities to the player-patient and the team. Cl...

In general terms, we can face a conflict of interest every time that we have to deal with competing goals and responsibilities. In a more specific sense, however, such a conflict is understood as a situation where a personal self-interest could unduly interfere with professional responsibilities. This situation appears particularly blameworthy, when public interest and protection of fundamental...

In his excellent article about commercial conflict of interest, Mark Wilson quotes Dennis Thompson, a political scientist who provided a searching analysis of the concept of conflict of interest (Col). Using Thompson's analysis, Wilson writes: "Determining whether factors such as ambition, the pursuit of fame and financial gain had biased a judgment was challenging. Motives are not always clear...

This article examines conflicts of interest in the context of scientific research related to regulation or litigation. The article defines conflicts of interest, considers how conflicts of interest can impact research, and discusses different strategies for dealing with conflicts of interest. While it is not realistic to expect that scientific research related to regulation or litigation will e...

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...

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BACKGROUND Medical studies are more likely to report favorable findings when a conflict of interest is declared. We aim to quantify and determine the effect of author disclosure of conflict of interest on scientific reporting. METHODS Abstracts from an international spine research meeting (North American Spine Society 2010) were selected that specifically evaluated a device, biologic, or prop...