Conflict of Interest
 

Conflict of Interest

Recent Projects
The Conflict of Interest Notification Study (COINS) is a five-year project supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health which was designed to examine the disclosure of conflicts of research and ultimately provide a framework for policy-making and establishing best practices for disclosing conflicts of interest in clinical research. Numerous publications have resulted from the research. Jeremy Sugarman is the principal investigator of the grant which has collaborators at Duke University and Wake Forest University.

 
Selected Publications
Weinfurt K, Hall M, King NMP, Friedman J, Schulman K, Sugarman J. Disclosure of financial relationships to clinical research participants: goals, evidence , and recommendations. New Engl J Med 2009; 361: 916-921.

Hall MA, Weinfurt KP, Lawlor JS, Friedman JY, Schulman KA,
Sugarman J. Community hospital oversight of clinical investigators’ financial relationships. IRB 2009; 31: 7-13.

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Weinfurt KP, Hall MA, Friedman JY, Hardy C, Fortune-Greeley AK, Lawlor JS, Allsbrook JS, Lin L, Schulman KA, Sugarman J. Effects of disclosing financial interests on participation in medical research: a randomized vignette trial. Am Heart J 2008: 156:689-697

Weinfurt KP, Hall MA, Dinan MA, DePuy V, Friedman JY, Allsbrook JS,
Sugarman J. Effects of disclosing financial interests on attitudes toward clinical research. J Gen Intern Med 2008; 23: 860-6.

Friedman JY,
Sugarman J., Dhillon JK, DePuy V, Pierre CK, Dinan MA, Allsbrook JS, Schulman KA, Weinfurt KP. Perspectives of clinical research coordinators on disclosing financial conflicts of interest to potential research participants. Clin Trials 2007; 4: 272-8.

Weinfurt KP, Allsbrook JS, Friedman JY, Dinan MA, Hall MA, Schulman KA,
Sugarman J. Developing model language for disclosing financial interests to potential clinical research participants. IRB 2007; 29:1-5.

Hall MA, Camacho F, Lawlor JS, DePuy V,
Sugarman J, Weinfurt KP. Measuring trust in medical researchers. Med Care 2006; 44: 1048-1053.

Dinan MA, Weinfurt KP, Friedman JY, Allsbrook JS, Gottlieb J, Schulman KA, Hall MA, Dhillon JK,
Sugarman J. Comparison of conflict of interest policies and reported practices in academic medical centers in the United States. Account Res 2006; 13: 325-342.

Weinfurt KP, Friedman JY, Allsbrook JS, Dinan MA, Hall MA,
Sugarman J. Views of potential research participants on financial conflicts of interest: barriers and opportunities for effective disclosure. J Gen Intern Med 2006; 21:901-906.

Weinfurt KP, Dinan MA, Allsbrook JS, Friedman JY, Hall MA, Schulman KA,
Sugarman J. Policies of academic medical centers for disclosing financial conflicts of interest to potential research participants. Academ Med 2006; 81: 113-118.