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Recent trends and controversies in industry-sponsored clinical trials

C R Reed1, C A Camargo

  • 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA.

Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
|August 27, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Industry funding for biomedical research, especially clinical trials, requires ethical review. Reevaluating guidelines for investigator involvement, this study categorizes trials and addresses ethical concerns like contracts and authorship.

Keywords:
Biomedical and Behavioral Research

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