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"IOM Panelists: The Unknowns
December 5th, 2013 Jennie Spotila Leave a comment Go to comments
In this post, we present profiles of the seven members of the Institute of Medicine ME/CFS definition panel who were unknown to the ME/CFS community. You can read about the team who put this together and the methods we used in this previous post. In assessing conflict of interest in these profiles, we defined conflicts very narrowly. We looked for direct financial interests that could influence panel members in defining ME/CFS. For example, payments from disability insurance companies would be highly relevant and potential conflicts. The conflicts assessments presented in this post are limited to those direct interests. In a future post, we will share a summary of our discussion about whether to define conflicts more broadly and consider other types of financial issues...................."