00.12.12 - Medical journal bars authors' prepublication comments. Medical journal bars authors' prepublication comments. In a revision of its 1991 pre-publication policy, the Journal of the American Medical Association has stated that authors of research findings to be published in its journal must not discuss their findings at press conferences or in press releases before journal publication. A Yale researcher reported in the same JAMA issue that carotid endarterectomy surgery was performed more frequently than appropriate after pre-journal publication announcements about the surgery at conferences and in clinical alerts. Rates for this surgery were reduced after medical journal publication of surgery results.
Medical journal bars authors' prepublication comments.
Fontanarosa PB, Flanagin A. Prepublication release of medical research. Relation between prepublication release of clinical trial results and the practice of carotid endarterectomy. Full text for UCHC IP address at the American Medical Association website. Journal of the American Medical Association on the web.