A complication after surgery is something patients and physicians want to avoid, but certain types of payments to hospitals appear to reward suboptimal care and penalize quality care, according to study findings appearing today in JAMA. The study found that… Read More ›
Strict conflict-of-interest policies in academic medical centers may help resident physicians resist pharmaceutical company persuasion to prescribe expensive brand-name medications, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine analyzed data from 2009 about… Read More ›
Not all physicians are as truthful or open in their communications with patients as the latter may expect, behavior that is in conflict with at least some of the tenets of the Charter on Medical Professionalism, according to new findings… Read More ›
A long-awaited update to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) rules governing conflicts of interest requires institutions receiving federal funding to disclose more detail about their investigators’ financial relationships with industry. Since the previous set of rules was established in… Read More ›
