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August 27, 2009, 10:21 AM ET

Clinical Investigators Urged to Tell Study Participants of Financial Conflicts

A study of conflict-of-interest policies by researchers at Wake Forest and Duke Universities, published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, has concluded that investigators involved in clinical trials should do more to provide trial participants with meaningful disclosures of any of their financial conflicts, a conclusion that endorses guidelines issued last spring by the National Academies' Institute of Medicine.

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