Conflict of interest: A tenacious ethical dilemma in public health policy, not only in clinical practice/research

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

Health policy and quality: an ethical dilemma.

Emergency medicine is on the front line of many important health issues, such as access for the poor and uninsured, the AIDS epidemic, and domestic violence. Virtually all key policy issues relating to emergency medicine deal with the concept of quality. During the 1970s, quality issues dealt with issues of value. Interest in quality is now vested in the tradeoff between cost containment activi...

Cause for concern: the absence of consideration of public and ethical interest in British public policy.

In the UK, many fundamentally important policy decisions that are likely to affect the relationship between citizens and care services are now made at the sublegislative level and without adequate ethical consideration and scrutiny. This is well exemplified in the proposed guidance on the disclosure of information on children. A recent consultation paper by the UK government on the subject prop...

An editor's dilemma--avoiding conflict of interest.

AFP's conflict of interest policy: disclosure is not enough.

Medical journals go to great lengths to ensure that authors disclose potential conflicts of interest. In research journals, financial ties between authors and the makers of drugs and medical devices are inevitable because more than half of research is funded by the pharmaceutical industry.1 However, just about all medical journals permit authors of review articles and editorials to also have su...