Ghostwriting at elite academic medical centers in the United States

Jeffrey Lacasse and Jonathan Leo assess ghostwriting policies at 50 academic medical centers in the United States and find that only 10 explicitly prohibit ghostwriting.

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Published inPLoS medicine Vol. 7; no. 2; p. e1000230
Main Authors Lacasse, Jeffrey R, Leo, Jonathan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Public Library of Science 01.02.2010
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects
Academic Medical Centers - ethics
Academic Medical Centers - legislation & jurisprudence
Authorship
Bans
Biomedical research
Conflict of Interest - legislation & jurisprudence
Cooperative Behavior
Drug Industry - ethics
Drug Industry - legislation & jurisprudence
Evidence-Based Medicine
Government Regulation
Humans
Interinstitutional Relations
Laws, regulations and rules
Medical colleges
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Mental Health
Periodicals as Topic - ethics
Periodicals as Topic - legislation & jurisprudence
Pharmaceutical industry
Physicians
Policy Forum
Policy Making
Public health
Public Health - ethics
Public Health - legislation & jurisprudence
R&D
Research & development
Scholarly publishing
Science Policy/Education
Teaching hospitals
Truth Disclosure
United States
United States
Public Health
Authorship
United States
Drug Industry
Humans
Cooperative Behavior
Conflict of Interest
Academic Medical Centers
Evidence-Based Medicine
Truth Disclosure
Policy Making
Government Regulation
Interinstitutional Relations
Periodicals as Topic
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Summary:Jeffrey Lacasse and Jonathan Leo assess ghostwriting policies at 50 academic medical centers in the United States and find that only 10 explicitly prohibit ghostwriting.
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The Policy Forum allows health policy makers around the world to discuss challenges and opportunities for improving health care in their societies.
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: JRL JL. Wrote the first draft of the paper: JRL. Contributed to the writing of the paper: JRL JL.
ISSN:1549-1676
1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000230