Beyond conflict of interest. Non-financial conflicts of interest are more serious than financial conflicts.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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2. A literature review of non-financial conflicts of interest in healthcare research and publication.BMC medical ethics · 2025
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3. Symposium Lead Essay-Conflict of Interest: Opening Up New Territories.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2020
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4. Patents and Innovation Among Neurosurgeons from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.Cureus · 2020
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5. "Get the Consent"-Nonfinancial Conflict of Interest in Academic Clinical Research.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2017
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6. The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses.The Milbank quarterly · 2016
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7. Ten Simple Rules for Protecting Research Integrity.PLoS computational biology · 2015
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8. Non-financial conflicts of interest in academic grant evaluation: a qualitative study of multiple stakeholders in France.PloS one · 2012
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9. "Members of the same club": challenges and decisions faced by US IRBs in identifying and managing conflicts of interest.PloS one · 2011
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10. The need for a transparent, ethical, and successful relationship between academic scientists and the pharmaceutical industry: a view of the Group for the Respect of Ethics and Excellence in Science (GREES).Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2010
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11. Reporting of conflicts of interest in guidelines of preventive and therapeutic interventions.BMC medical research methodology · 2001
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12. Drug treatments for schizophrenia.Quality in health care : QHC · 2000
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Corrections and comments

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  Beyond conflict of interest. Transparency is the key.1998

Authors and funding

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Abstract

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