Conflict of interest database
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A 1conflict-of-interest database launched Sept. 10 by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession will help medical schools see and compare COI policies among the nation's 125 academic medical centers. The IMAP database will feature 12 areas in which medical schools are trying to regulate the influence of device and drug industry financing, including funding for gifts, meals, continuing medical education, consulting and honoraria arrangements and ghostwriting. The database is free and open to the public at http://www.imapny.org/coi_database, and currently contains 90 of the 125 medical college's policies. Separately, on Sept. 1, Stanford's medical school prohibited all commercial funding from device and drug firms for its CME courses