ISMPP Applauds AAMC Clarification on Ghostwriting Versus Transparent Writing Collaboration in Scientific Pu... (rent disclosure. We concur with organiza...)

ISMPP Applauds AAMC Clarification on Ghostwriting Versus Transparent Writing Collaboration in Scientific Publications

Date:7/7/2008

rent disclosure. We concur with organizations like AAMC who increase recognition and understanding of the many issues involved in the collaborative process of medical writing and publication planning".

AAMC has appropriately defined ghostwriting "as the provision of written material that is officially credited to someone other than the writer(s) of the material. Transparent writing collaboration with attribution between academic and industry investigators, medical writers, and/or technical experts is not ghostwriting. The unacknowledged, undisclosed provision of content should not be permitted under any circumstances". AAMC further provides the following recommendation: "Academic medical centers should prohibit physicians, trainees, and students from allowing their professional presentations of any kind, oral or written, to be ghostwritten by any party, industry or otherwise."

"Heightened awareness and rigorous examination of academic and industry involvement with clinical publications has become an increasingly prevalent topic in the medical literature. As is often the case with media scrutiny, attribution of poor practices in one area are generalized to a larger characterization of the issue at large, albeit unjustly in many cases", said Al Weigel, Chairman of ISMPP's Ethics Committee. "AAMC's guidelines provide a clear distinction between medical writing and ghostwriting/ghost authoring that is in line with the ISMPP Code of Ethics (http://www.ismpp.org), which is intended to promote quality clinical publication practices."

About ISMPP:
The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals is an independent nonprofit professional association with members from the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology industries; publication planning and medical communications companies;
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