Institutional Conflict of Interest

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Abstract
Financial conflicts of interest in a research setting can adversely affect patient care, teaching, and research. Discussions of these conflicts ordinarily focus on issues that arise when individual physicians and biomedical scientists conduct research in which they have a financial interest.118 Less attention has been paid to the conflicts of interest that arise when health care institutions have a financial stake in the research conducted in their laboratories and clinics.19,20 This relative inattention persists despite the increased pressure on health care institutions to seek new sources of revenue to fund their activities and the government's encouragement of the . . .