Ghost management: how much of the medical literature is shaped behind the scenes by the pharmaceutical industry?

PLoS Med. 2007 Sep;4(9):e286. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040286.

Abstract

Sismondo discusses how pharmaceutical companies and their agents shape multiple steps in the research, analysis, writing, and publication of articles.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Trials as Topic / ethics
  • Clinical Trials as Topic / methods
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Drug Industry / ethics*
  • Drug Industry / methods
  • Drug Industry / organization & administration
  • Ethics, Medical*
  • Humans
  • Medicine / methods
  • Medicine / organization & administration
  • Peer Review / ethics
  • Peer Review / methods
  • Periodicals as Topic / ethics*
  • Specialization*