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Medical Academia Conflict Of Interest Policy And Potential Impact On Research Funding, Michael Keith Maahs
Medical Academia Conflict Of Interest Policy And Potential Impact On Research Funding, Michael Keith Maahs
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The partnership between medical academia and the pharmaceutical industry has been scrutinized for issues associated with research bias. As a result of this scrutiny, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued policy recommendations in 2009 directing academia to adopt comprehensive conflict of interest (COI) policies. During the same time, a slowdown of funded research into academia occurred, and it is not clear whether the IOM recommendations contributed to this problem. The purpose of this case study was to determine the extent to which compliance with the IOM policy resulted in a reduction in funded research. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) was …