The Relation of Faculty Academic Activity to Financing Sources in a Department of Medicine

To the Editor: To paraphrase Disraeli, There are three kinds of lies — lies, damned lies, and cost accounting. With the pages of the Journal looking more and more like the Harvard Business Review, I would like to make a plea to the editors and reviewers to apply the same standards to medical economics articles as they do to scientific papers. Results should justify conclusions. Critical editorials putting a paper in perspective should be freely used. An example is the recent Special Article by Chin et al. (April 18 issue).* In this paper, the authors tackle the very difficult task . . .