Knowing doctor’s financial interests doesn’t deter clinical trial participants

April 3, 2008

A patient’s willingness to participate in a clinical trial may be unaffected by the disclosure of a researcher’s financial interests in the study, unless the amount of money a researcher stands to earn depends on the results of the trial, according to a new study by researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), Wake Forest University, and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. (EurekaAlert)