24. A clinical trial is being conducted. Under the agreement between the sponsoring pharmaceutical company and the department, the research results must be provided to the sponsor before any publication.
#	Response Date	Comment
1.	Tue, 3/13/07 11:04 PM	on the whether the truthfullness of the research is going to be compromised or not.
2.	Tue, 3/13/07 11:12 PM	Will publication proceed regardless of the research results provided?
3.	Wed, 3/14/07 12:42 AM	It depends what the sponsor is able to do with the results. Is the plans to prevent release/publication of negative results or just to get the results first?
4.	Wed, 3/14/07 1:06 AM	If the results must be provided to the sponsor, but the sponsor does not prohibit publication, then there is no COI.
5.	Wed, 3/14/07 1:13 AM	COI only of the sponsor has any say about how the data will be published
6.	Wed, 3/14/07 4:53 AM	Depends on whether the sponsor changes the results before reporting to the public.
7.	Wed, 3/14/07 2:47 PM	If the sponsor can veto publication, then COI
8.	Wed, 3/14/07 8:42 PM	on what gets published...if the true results are still published without input from the company, then no problem
9.	Fri, 3/16/07 2:42 PM	As long as the study has already been entered into the tracking database and no changes to the raw data are made.
10.	Mon, 3/26/07 2:12 PM	Very serious COI if the pharmaceutical company can block the publication. No COI if they just want first look at the results and will not influence the publishing.
11.	Sun, 4/29/07 9:27 PM	As long as the pharmaceutical company has no right to deny publication of the research and sponsorship of the research is acknowledged in the publication, there is no COI.