Ghostwriting at elite academic medical centers in the United States

PLoS Med. 2010 Feb 2;7(2):e1000230. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000230.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Academic Medical Centers* / ethics
  • Academic Medical Centers* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Authorship*
  • Conflict of Interest* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Drug Industry* / ethics
  • Drug Industry* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Government Regulation
  • Humans
  • Interinstitutional Relations
  • Periodicals as Topic* / ethics
  • Periodicals as Topic* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Policy Making
  • Public Health* / ethics
  • Public Health* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Truth Disclosure*
  • United States