“Full Disclosure

Full Disclosure Policy

the world of public health, and environmental health in particular, we work with lawyers; yet, many of us remain unaware of recent developments in the law and legal scholarship that may be critical to the success of our work. Many lawyers, even those working on major public health challenges such as tobacco control, are similarly unaware of relevant changes in the world of science. There is a n...

Full Disclosure in Decentralized Organizations

We characterize sufficient conditions for full and decentralized disclosure of hard information in organizations with asymmetrically informed and self interested agents with quadratic loss functions. Incentive conflicts arise because agents have different (and possibly interdependent) ideal actions and different incentives to coordinate with each others. A fully revealing sequential equilibrium...

Full disclosure: not just of conflict, but also of data.

THE events of the past 2 yr since the initial controversial publication by Mangano et al. regarding the effect of aprotinin on renal failure and mortality have been of great interest to the anesthesiology community. In this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Dietrich et al. test the hypothesis that any potential nephrotoxic effect of aprotinin (Bayer Healthcare Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is dose dep...

Full disclosure and apology--an idea whose time has come.

Full disclosure--out-of-pocket costs as side effects.

1. The Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust. 2013 Employer health benefits survey. August 20, 2013 (http://kff.org/private-insurance/report/2013 -employer-health-benefits/). 2. Swartz K. Cost-sharing: effects on spending and outcomes. Research synthesis report no. 20. The Synthesis Project. December 2010 (http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/ farm/reports/issue_briefs/201...