From: Investigator experiences with financial conflicts of interest in clinical trials
Financial Conflict of Interest | Experienced by Investigators | Witnessed in Colleagues Research | ||
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 | Number (%) (N = 85) | Examples from Free Text Comments | Number (%) (N = 236) | Examples from Free Text Comments |
Recruitment | 28 (33) | • Pressure to recruit patients | 31 (13) | • Investigators receive direct benefit from enrolling patients |
Study conduct | 20 (24) | • Being asked to have a paper ghost-written | 37 (16) | • Review focusing on trials with positive result |
Personal financial incentives | 9 (11) | • Possible financial gain by success of a drug/study | 56 (24) | • Equity holding in a company whose product is being investigated |
Conflicting roles | 6 (7) | • Invented and patented devices and involved in their study | 19 (8) | • Being the site principal investigator and the patient's physician |