FDA: Financial disclosures by clinical investigators
This guidance represents the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
current thinking on this topic. It provides information
on financial disclosure, disclosable financial arrangements,
requirements, and definitions, and a good Q&A sections.
The article can be found at
www.fda.gov/oc/guidance/financialdis.html |
GAO: Record linkage and privacy- issues for new federal
research/ statistical info
According to the GAO (General Accounting Office) report
record linkage is a computer-based process that combines
multiple sources of existing data. Federally sponsored
linkage projects such as informing policy debates, tracking
program outcomes, helping local government or business
planning, or contributing knowledge that might benefit
millions of people. This research will be conducted
under federal auspices (or with federal funding), and
produce new research or statistical information. Despite
these benefits, concerns about personal privacy are
relevant. To see the objectives, scope, and methodology
for linkage projects that involve person-specific data
in the GAO report, go to:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01126sp.pdf |
