JBJS | The Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Financial Conflict of Interest in Orthopaedic Research

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Volume 89, Issue 4

Ethics in Practice | April 01, 2007

The Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Financial Conflict of Interest in Orthopaedic Research

Kanu Okike, BA¹; Mininder S. Kocher, MD, MPH²

¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail address: kanu_okike@hms.harvard.edu
² Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. 2007; 89:910-913 doi:10.2106/JBJS.F.00998

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Case 1. An orthopaedic surgeon publishes a paper featuring a positive evaluation of a new medication to prevent deep venous thrombosis. The surgeon serves as a paid consultant to the drug manufacturer.Case 2. An orthopaedic surgeon is asked by a medical device company to conduct a study evaluating a novel total hip prosthesis. The device manufacturer assumes responsibility for funding the study and publishing the results.Case 3. An orthopaedic surgeon has developed a novel synthetic tendon graft, which she hopes to market after obtaining approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She seeks to enroll one of her patients in a clinical trial of the graft.

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