We have often discussed how health care organizations now seem prone to diversion from their stated missions, often when money is the object...
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Showing posts with label guidelines. Show all posts
Is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation a Charity or a Venture Capital Firm?
We have often discussed how health care organizations now seem prone to diversion from their stated missions, often when money is the object...
The "King of Pain" Recants - Pharmaceutical Paid Key Opinion Leader Admits It Was All "Misinformation"
This may be a first. A Wall Street Journal story announced that the "key opinion leader" who played a pivotal role in the promot...
What If the Institute of Medicine Wrote a Report and Nobody Followed it? - the Case of the Standards for Developing Trustworthy Guidelines
For over 20 years, clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been touted to improve health care quality and control costs. Enormous numbers ...
Logical Fallacies in Defense of the European Society of Cardiology's Lenient Approach to Conflicts of Interest
The European Society of Cardiology just published its recommendations for interactions between medical societies and industry.(1) The repo...
The Institute of Medicine Releases Reports on Practice Guidelines and Systematic Reviews Which Generate Few Echoes
Two days ago, the prestigious US Institute of Medicine released two reports on important health care issues, clinical practice guidelines an...
Key Opinion Leader Services Companies: the Creation of Useful Idiots and Usefully Idiotic Organizations
In researching the conflicts of interest of the University of California "36," I stumbled upon a fascinating corner of the pharma...
