Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice¶
Lo, B., & Field, M. J. (2009). Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice. National Academies Press.
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Primes¶
- Conflict of Interest
- … first-order response to conflicts is disclosure: the conflicted party reveals the conflict to all stakeholders, an approach that Lo and Field (2009) — in the IOM report on conflict of interest in medical research, education, and practice — treat as necessary but insufficient absent firmer institutional management.
This sourceIOM consensus report establishing disclosure as a necessary first-order remedy that must be combined with management, recusal, and prohibition where stakes warrant — supports the disclosure-as-necessary-but-insufficient claim. Live-verified (NAP/NCBI).
- … first-order response to conflicts is disclosure: the conflicted party reveals the conflict to all stakeholders, an approach that Lo and Field (2009) — in the IOM report on conflict of interest in medical research, education, and practice — treat as necessary but insufficient absent firmer institutional management.
Mechanisms¶
- Conflict Disclosure and Recusal Rule
- The discipline that guards against this is making recusal bite (removal, not a footnote), screening rather than merely trusting for high-stakes calls, and keeping the boundary wide enough to catch real bias but narrow enough to keep expertise in the room.
This sourceRecommends independent conflict screening and genuine exclusion where necessary, while preserving essential expertise through a narrow exception.
- The discipline that guards against this is making recusal bite (removal, not a footnote), screening rather than merely trusting for high-stakes calls, and keeping the boundary wide enough to catch real bias but narrow enough to keep expertise in the room.
- Motive-Opportunity-Bias Analysis
- A documented, structural incentive to distort is a conflict of interest: real evidence about the channel, and a reason to seek independent checks, but never on its own proof that the account is false.
This sourceA conflict of interest is structural evidence of a channel of possible influence and warrants independent safeguards, but it is not proof that bias or improper conduct occurred.
- A documented, structural incentive to distort is a conflict of interest: real evidence about the channel, and a reason to seek independent checks, but never on its own proof that the account is false.
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