Top

Published in:

01-06-2020 | Symposium: Conflicts of Interest

Symposium Lead Essay—Conflict of Interest: Opening Up New Territories

Authors: Miriam Wiersma, Wendy Lipworth, Paul Komesaroff, Ian Kerridge

Published in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | Issue 2/2020

Excerpt

Over the last few decades, awareness of the importance of managing conflicts of interest among health-related policymaking, professional, research, and clinical institutions has greatly increased. The visibility of the issue—and the widespread use of the expression “conflict of interests”—may give the impression that the underlying concepts have been clearly defined and that there is widespread consensus about processes and practices. Sadly, this is not the case. In reality, conflicts of interests are far more complex than is commonly appreciated and, because of their importance, require ongoing detailed, rigorous analysis and debate. …

Akl, E.A., P. El-Hachem, H. Abou-Haidar, et al. 2014. Considering intellectual, in addition to financial, conflicts of interest proved important in a clinical practice guideline: a descriptive study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 67(11): 1222-1228.CrossRef

Bero, L. 2017. Addressing bias and conflict of interest among biomedical researchers. JAMA 317(17): 1723-1724.CrossRef

Goldberg, D. 2020. Financial conflicts of interest are of higher ethical priority than “intellectual” conflicts of interest. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17(2): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-09989-4.

Goldrick, B., E. Larson, and D. Lyons. 1994. Conflict of interest in academia. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 27(1): 65-69. CrossRef

Giubilini, A., and J. Savulescu. 2020. Beyond money: Conscientious objection in medicine as a conflict of interest. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17(2): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-09976-9.

Horrobin, D. 1999. Non-financial conflicts of interest are more serious than financial conflicts. The BMJ 318(7181): 466.CrossRef

Komesaroff, P.A., I. Kerridge, and W. Lipworth. 2019. Conflicts of interest: New thinking, new processes. Internal Medicine Journal 49(5): 574-577. CrossRef

Levinsky, N.G. 2002. Nonfinancial conflicts of interest in research. New England Journal of Medicine 347(10): 759-761.CrossRef

Lo, B., and M. Field. 2009. Conflict of interest in medical research, education, and practice Washington, D.C: National Academies Press.

Lundh, A., J. Lexchin, B. Mintzes, et al. 2017. Industry sponsorship and research outcome. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: MR000033.

Marks, J. 2020. Lessons from corporate influence in the opioid epidemic: Toward a norm of separation. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17(2): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-09982-x.

Marshall, E. 1992. When does intellectual passion become conflict of interest? Science 257 (5070): 620-625.PubMed

Mayes, C. 2020. After conflicts of interest: From procedural short-cut to ethico-political debate. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17(2): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-09971-0.

Nie, J., G. Xie, H. Chen, and Y. Cong. 2020. Conflicts of interest in scientific research in China: A socio-ethical analysis of He Jiankui’s human gene-editing experiment. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17(2): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-09978-7.

Pellegrino, E. 1992. Beneficence, scientific autonomy and self-interest: Ethical dilemmas in clinical research. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1(4): 361-369.CrossRef

Thompson, D.F. 1993. Understanding financial conflicts of interest. New England Journal of Medicine 329(8): 573-576.CrossRef

Wiersma, M., I. Kerridge, and W. Lipworth. 2018. Dangers of neglecting non-financial conflicts of interest in health and medicine. Journal of Medical Ethics 44(5): 319-322.CrossRef

———. 2020. Status, respect and stigma: A qualitative study of non-financial interests in medicine. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17(2).

Wiersma, M., I. Kerridge, W. Lipworth, and M. Rodwin. 2018. Should we manage non-financial interests? BMJ 361: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k1240

Title: Symposium Lead Essay—Conflict of Interest: Opening Up New Territories
Authors: Miriam Wiersma
Wendy Lipworth
Paul Komesaroff
Ian Kerridge
Publication date: 01-06-2020
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Published in: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 1176-7529
Electronic ISSN: 1872-4353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-09987-6

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Symposium Lead Essay—Conflict of Interest: Opening Up New Territories

Excerpt

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Excerpt

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 2/2020

The Principle of Autonomy and Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

Ethical Reasoning and Moral Distress in Social Care Among Long-Term Care Staff

Conflict of Interest in Scientific Research in China: A Socio-ethical Analysis of He Jiankui’s Human Genome-editing Experiment

Genome Editing for Longer Lives: The Problem of Loneliness

Deliver Us From Injustice: Reforming the U.S. Healthcare System

Telling, Hearing, and Believing: A Critical Analysis of Narrative Bioethics