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Clinicians and researchers need to be more aware before signing on to studies about what potential conflicts might arise with the sponsor and set the ground rules for such areas as access to data, manuscript preparation, and right to publish.
Results of a new survey showed that a surprising 15% of textbooks had one or more drug or device sponsors and, in two cases, those sponsors had tried to influence the content of the textbooks.
French researchers who systematically quantified the prevalence of spin across 72 negative randomized controlled trials say half of the studies put a positive spin on the negative findings in the conclusion sections of the papers.
UPDATED // Compared with a 1996 survey by JAMA editors, a 2008 survey indicates that the practice of having ghost writers pen papers, then not appear as authors, is down to 8%, from 12% in 1996. The practice of inviting a prominent name to appear in the list of authors, without requiring that person to contribute to the research, has held steady at roughly 20%.
