Beyond conflict of interest

BMJ 1998;317:291-292 ( 1 August )

Editorials

Beyond conflict of interest

Transparency is the key

News p 301 Education and debate p 333 Filler p 318 Letters p 344

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Conflict of interest is being taken more seriously by doctors and by society at large. The New England Journal of Medicinehas twice recently been heavily criticised for failing to declareauthors' conflicts of interest $---$ despite its declared policy ofdoing so. ¹ ² Last week the BBC halted a £360 000, well reviewedtelevision series because of a "potential conflict of interest":the producer owned commercial property featured in the series.³Despite the rising concern, medical journals have done an indifferentjob in tackling the problem.⁴ Four years ago I wrote an editorialarguing that we had to do better,⁵ and we began then to requireall authors to sign forms declaring conflicts of interest. Unfortunatelyauthors often fail to declare conflicts of interest. This issueof the BMJ contains a collection of material on the subject, andwe are proposing new policies.

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