RT Journal
A1 Bauchner H, Fontanarosa PB
T1 UPdate on jama 's policies on conflicts of interest, trial registration, embargo, and data timeliness, access, and analysis
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD July 11
VO 308
IS 2
SP 186
OP 188
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.7926
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.7926
AB 
Journal policies define the principles, standards, and philosophy of a scientific publication and accordingly are living documents that require periodic reevaluation and updating. The goal of these policies is to ensure that published reports are unbiased so that patients, physicians, and others can have confidence in and benefit from the information. Over the past 3 decades, scientific evidence has accumulated that bias can occur due to several major factors, including conflicts of interest, failure to register clinical trials, deviation from trial protocols, and failure to include all relevant data in reports of trials and other major studies.