CITI: Conflicts of Interest & Basics of Info Security

A researcher's membership on an advisory board with an organization sponsoring research can create a COI because:

It may be difficult for the researcher to appear neutral, as the researcher may have an interest in the research's success

The COI management plan aims to:

Provide procedures or extras steps to be taken to minimize the risk of bias when a COI is disclosed

The FDA regulations governing disclosure of individual COIs require:

Applicants submitting marketing applications to disclose financial COIs of researchers who conducted clinical studies.

During an Institutional Review Board (IRB) meeting, an IRB member who may have a potential COI with a study under review should:

Disclose their potential COI and may answer questions, but recuse themselves from voting

What is the term for management controls that are build in to a research study (for example, independent data analysis)?

Inherent controls

The peer review process can create conflicts of interest because the choice of who reviews a potentially publishable project may show:

There may be bias by the peer reviewer as to the area of research