Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Trial Recruitment & Enrollment: A Call for Increased Oversight
White Paper for the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Seton Hall Law School
62 Pages Posted: 3 Dec 2009 Last revised: 11 Feb 2014
Date Written: November 30, 2009
Abstract
This White Paper makes several policy recommendations to eliminate or manage the conflicts of interest that arise pursuant to the compensation arrangements between investigators and their institutions with drug and medical device manufacturers as they affect the recruitment and enrollment of human research subjects in clinical trials. The paper seeks to accomplish overall financial neutrality as between treatment and research, so that physicians' decisions regarding inclusion of patients in clinical trials is unaffected by their own financial interests.
Keywords: conflict of interest, pharmaceutical, clinical trials
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