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Direct And Enhanced Disclosure Of Researcher Financial Conflicts, Roy G. Spece Jr.

Roy G Spece Jr.

Abstract of DIRECT AND ENHANCED DISCLOSURE OF RESEARCHER FINANCIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: THE ROLE OF TRUST In earlier writing I recommended direct disclosure of a major researcher financial conflict of interest, per capita funding—i.e., providing a fixed sum per subject recruited and enrolled in a study. This article adds a recommendation for enhanced direct disclosure. The enhancement in the disclosure is a summary of why per capita and excess payments are being discussed. The reason they are being discussed is because of their risk of introducing bias into researchers’ decisions regarding study design, implementation, and interpretation as well as concerning …