role of sponsor
When there is any question over the role of a funder in a publication, including when the involvement of a funder in any part of the research or publication (e.g. study design, data collection, analysis, reporting) is inadequately disclosed
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Disagreement between authors and sponsor
11-15 Our journal was contacted by a representative of a company following acceptance of a manuscript that was based on a clinical study sponsored by that company. Upon acceptance, the senior author had forwarded a copy of the manuscript ...
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Publication of papers from industry sponsored symposium
08-16 Our scientific/medical Society added a Special Symposium to its Annual Meeting Program. The symposium organiser, who is an academic member of the Society, invited seven speakers, all from academic institutions, in addition to ...
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Sponsorship, ethical approval and consent for study done as part of an expanded access program
07-32 We received a paper describing the results of an analysis of pathogen gene sequences from patients who had been given an investigational drug as treatment for their infection. The study had been done in Europe. One reviewer said ...
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Literature evaluation service and supplements
06-34 An online post-publication literature evaluation service aiming to highlight the best articles in medicine has received evaluation of articles published in supplement issues of journals. Given that many supplements are funded by ...
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Competing interest
04-34 An editorial board member of a journal submitted an unsolicited review article on a drug. The editor said the journal would consider the article, but suspected that the article had been commissioned or even written by a drugs ...
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Possible deception because of omission of important information
03-19 A large study—parts of which have been published in several major journals— purported to show that a drug may reduce side effect X without acting through an important intermediate process Y. This suggests that the drug may have ...