Still, when reviewers had responsibility for updating, reviewer motivation was the most prominent barrier to updating – every responding CRG reported this to be a moderate or serious obstacle, compared to only 39% of those who did not place primary responsibility with the original authors.
I disagree with Gordon Brown's comments yesterday – ultimately parliament needs to take responsibility for updating the law.
EMAP changed tack with this new product and decided to outsource the responsibility for updating and maintaining the database of information to a team in India.
"If I'm a drug company, what I need to do is take more responsibility by updating labels on a more active basis to protect myself," said Seamus Fernandez, an analyst with Leerink Swann, a health care investment bank.
If the companies were expected to take responsibility for updating their labels, "we would effectively start to turn generic companies into brand companies, and of course the tremendous cost savings that American consumers have benefitted from would start to wane," said Jay Lefkowitz, who served as the lead attorney representing generic companies before the Supreme Court.
Since this time, IUPAC has been the official organization held with the responsibility of updating and maintaining official organic nomenclature.
They say several hundred drugs are now sold only by generic makers, so no manufacturer has the legal responsibility to update warnings of possible new risks.
Within the Cochrane Collaboration, responsibility for updating resides predominantly with the authors.
We note that 16% of respondents suggested that responsibility for updating was a collective effort including all the above mentioned with the additional responsibility of information specialists involved with SRs while information specialists separately were thought of as least responsible (2/106; 2%).
The responsibility of updating the e-mail addresses in the list would lie with each country.
