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Understanding Financial Conflicts of Interest
Abstract
The problem of conflicts of interest began to receive serious attention in the medical literature in the 1980s1,2. Studies have described a wide range of conflicts involving physicians, medical researchers, and medical institutions (the most comprehensive is by Rodwin3). Among the areas of concern are self-referral by physicians,46 physicians' risk sharing in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and hospitals,7 gifts from drug companies to physicians,8,9 hospital purchasing and bonding practices,3 industry-sponsored research,10,11 and research on patients12. Yet the concept of conflict of interest itself has been inadequately analyzed, and consequently its elements, the purposes . . .
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Metadata
- Authors
- Thompson, D. F.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 1993-08-19
- Volume
- 329
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 573-576
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2028432936
- Cited by
- 854
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 10.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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