Publication of industry-sponsored medical research: guidelines from the Consortium of Laboratory Medicine Journal Editors.

摘要

Recently, the editors of nine leading laboratory medicine journals created the Consortium of Laboratory Medicine Journals Editors (CLMJE) to "complement the efforts of the World Association of Medical Editors and the Committee on Publication Ethics by issuing guidelines and requirements that are specific to laboratory medicine issues" (1). Earlier this year the CLMJE issued a statement regarding the need for full disclosure for industry-sponsored laboratory research publications. The statement was simultaneously published in the journals served by the editors who created CLMJE: Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Clinica Chimica Acta, American Journal of Hematology, Clinical Biochemistry, Transfusion, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, and Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. The statement indicated that the journals in which the statement was published would "require compliance with these guidelines for publication" (1). These guidelines were developed to identify author conflict of interest and their role in the study and to ensure disclosure of manufacturer-specific information on laboratory instruments and assays.