March 26, 2009
Campus Medical-Review Boards Often Fail to Police Themselves, Survey Finds
Universities' efforts to tighten conflict-of-interest rules involving their medical faculty members may be overlooking a key player: their own medical review boards.
A survey of 211 chairmen of institutional review boards at research-intensive medical institutions in the United States found that one-third of the boards did not require voting members to disclose any financial relationships with outside companies.
The findings, published in the April issue of
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