Ghostwriting at Elite Academic Medical Centers in the United States

Jeffrey Lacasse and Jonathan Leo assess ghostwriting policies at 50 academic medical centers in the United States and find that only 10 explicitly prohibit ghostwriting.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2010-02-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000230PMID 20126384PMCID 2814828
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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