TY  - JOUR
T1  - ONe can’t judge a stent by its cover
AU  - Giugliano GR, Schweiger MJ
Y1  - 2010/05/24
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.145
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 915
EP  - 916
VL  - 170
IS  - 10
N2  - 
The “law of unintended consequences” states that any purposeful action will produce some unintended consequences.1 The recent acquisition of the Guidant Corporation by Boston Scientific (BS) Corporation, Natick, Massachusetts, has led to policies that (1) promote wasteful spending and delay acquisition of necessary clinical information and (2) expose the interventional cardiology community to a potential appearance of conflict of interest at a time when physician-industry relationships are being carefully scrutinized.2- 4

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.145
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.145
ER  -