Are the guidelines intended to supplant existing university or organizational conflict of interest guidelines?
No. The guidelines are intended to complement existing university or organizational conflict of interest guidelines, which often focus on more clinical research. In the absence of guidelines, AcademyHealth urges individual health services researchers, their home organizations, and journals that publish health services research to adopt these guidelines and use them to inform development of their own policies and practices. In addition, these guidelines can be used to inform the revision of existing policies that need updating.
No. The guidelines are intended to complement existing university or organizational conflict of interest guidelines, which often focus on more clinical research. In the absence of guidelines, AcademyHealth urges individual health services researchers, their home organizations, and journals that publish health services research to adopt these guidelines and use them to inform development of their own policies and practices. In addition, these guidelines can be used to inform the revision of existing policies that need updating.
