Potential problems with industry-supported clinical research

☆ Competition of interest: currently none. Recent past: co-chair of a transatlantic intersocietal consensus on peripheral arterial occlusive disease (TASC) supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Schering AG, Berlin, Co-principal investigator of a completed trial of oral Iloprost in chronic critical limb ischemia, supported by Berlex, consultant on the design of clinical trials of the evaluation of thrombolytic agents (Abbott, Amigen); PI and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of EVT during the phase I trials (R.B.R.).

☆☆ Competition of interest: nil (K.W.J.).

★ Reprint requests: Dr K. Wayne Johnston, Editorial Office, Toronto General Hospital, 5 Eaton Room 312, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada.

★★ J Vasc Surg 2000;31:1066-76.

PII: S0741-5214(00)00029-X

doi: 10.1067/mva.2000.106031

© 2000 Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.