National evaluation of policies on individual financial conflicts of interest in Canadian academic health science centers

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1896-1903

  Lexchin, Joel ^a,b,c   Sekeres, Melanie ^c   Gold, Jennifer ^d   Ferris, Lorraine E ^e   Kalkar, Sunila R ^f   Wu, Wei ^f   Van Laethem, Marleen ^e,g   Chan, An Wen ^c   Moher, David ^h   Maskalyk, M James ^c   Taback, Nathan ⁱ   Rochon, Paula A ^f  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Ontario Medical Association   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Department of Food and Nutrition Services and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care   (Canada)

^g TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

ⁱ ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic health science centers; Financial conflicts of interest; Investigator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ETHICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SCIENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CANADA; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DATA COLLECTION; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 56749107256     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0752-4     Document Type: Article

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