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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2000, Vol. 85, No. 6 811-814
© 2000 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Editorial

Editorial I

Conflicts of interest: are they a problem for anaesthesia journals? What should we do about them?

J.Robert Sneyd

This journal requires authors to provide ‘a statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to conflict of interests’. Is this appropriate? Is this enough? What should we be doing in the future?

What is conflict of interest?

Financial interests are relatively easy to define and include employment, consultancy, sponsorship of research, lecture fees and support for participation in scientific meetings. Although financial interests are easy to quantify, Krimsky1 usefully reminded us that the existence of a financial interest does not imply a conflict and the potential financial gain is only one of many factors that can generate such conflicts.

Relationships between clinicians and pharmaceutical companies are widespread. As such, we cannot ignore them; rather, we have to understand and then come to terms with them. In the past 15 years, my own relationships with industry have included: paid employee; retained consultant; investigator in regulatory studies; collaborator in mutually interesting projects; receipt of lecture . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Why should we bother? Is there a problem?

Calcium-channel antagonists
Passive smoking
Sevoflurane and Compound A
Papers versus reviews

Editors and assessors

Responsibilities of the reader

What are the consequences for journals?

Interactions with pharmaceutical companies

What do other journals do at the moment?

What should the British Journal of Anaesthesia do next?

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