The Cleveland Clinic and some of its leading physicians havebeen criticized for their financial associations with industryand the limited disclosure of these relationships to patientsand the public. In response, the medical center has strengthenedits policies and oversight with regard to conflicts of interestand required that all industry relationships be submitted forapproval. Since December 2008, it has also disclosed on itsWeb site (www.clevelandclinic.org) some of the industry tiesof its 2000 physicians and researchers and their immediate families.1
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