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Policy Forum Ghostwriting at Elite Academic Medical Centers in the United States 1 2 Jeffrey R. Lacasse *, Jonathan Leo 1 School of Social Work, College of Public Programs, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, 2 Lincoln Memorial University - DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Harrogate, Tennessee, United States of America Background demic centers and then to propose an ideal either ghostwriting or authorship. The ghostwriting policy. Web sites of two schools stated that they Medical ghostwriting, the practice of did have such policies, but the policies pharmaceutical companies secretly au- Findings of Our Survey were not currently available online. thoring journal articles published under the byline of academic researchers, is a Of the 50 academic medical centers that Implications of These Findings troubling phenomenon because it is dan- we examined (Box 1), ten (20%) explicitly gerous to public health [1]. For example, prohibit ghostwriting. Of these ten, seven A minority of top-50 US-based aca- ghostwritten articles on rofecoxib [2] (14%) include some definition of ghost- demic medical centers (n = 13, 26%) pub- probably contributed to ‘‘…lasting injury writing in their policy, while three (6%) licly prohibit their faculty from participat- and even deaths as a result of prescribers prohibit ghostwriting without defining the ing in ghostwriting. It is