ArticlePLoS medicine2006
Advertising in medical journals: should current practices change?
Article in PLoS medicine, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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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
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
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- Conflicts of interest are harming maternal and child health: time for scientific journals to end relationships with manufacturers of breast-milk substitutes.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Mapping conflict of interests: scoping review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2021Article
- Cross-sectional study of medical advertisements in a national general medical journal: evidence, cost, and safe use of advertised versus comparative drugs.Research integrity and peer review · 2021Article
- Off the Market: The Percentage of Products Available After Ten Years.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2018Article
- Are claims made in orthodontic journal advertisements evidence-supported?The Angle orthodontist · 2015Article
- Are the claims made in orthopaedic print advertisements valid?International orthopaedics · 2014Article
- Gender policies and advertising and marketing practices that affect women's health.Global health action · 2013Article
- Misleading advertising for antidepressants in Sweden: a failure of pharmaceutical industry self-regulation.PloS one · 2013Article
- Adherence of pharmaceutical advertisements in medical journals to FDA guidelines and content for safe prescribing.PloS one · 2011Article
- Bias in the research literature and conflict of interest: an issue for publishers, editors, reviewers and authors, and it is not just about the money.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2009Article
- Do advertisements for antihypertensive drugs in Australia promote quality prescribing? A cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2008Article
- No budget, no worries: Free and open source publishing software in biomedical publishing.Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal · 2008Article
- Is content of medical journals related to advertisements? Case-control study.Croatian medical journal · 2007Article
- Financial conflicts of interest in psychiatry.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2007Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
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Registered trials
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