Question

Institutions are required by the U.S. Public Health Service to do which of the following: A. Update their financial conflict of interest policy every four years. B. Evaluate whether a significant financial interest is related to an investigator’s research and constitutes a financial conflict of interest. C. Apply the same financial conflict of interest policy to all researchers regardless of their funding source. D. Eliminate any and all conflicts of interest.

Answer 1

Answer: Evaluate whether a significant financial interest is related to an investigator’s research and constitutes a financial conflict of interest

Explanation: U.S. Public Health Service specified that institutions should establish a conflicts of interest by expressing whether the significant financial interests directly or indirectly affects the researcher’s judgment, when designing, reporting or conducting the process.