Conflicts of interest: how money clouds objectivity.

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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Disclosing conflicts of interest in patient decision aids.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2013
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4. Scientific integrity issues in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: Improving research reproducibility, credibility, and transparency.Integrated environmental assessment and management · 2019
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5. Rewarding peer reviewers: maintaining the integrity of science communication.Journal of Korean medical science · 2015
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6. Upgrading instructions for authors of scholarly journals.Croatian medical journal · 2014
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7. Understanding and Evaluating Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses.Indian journal of dermatology · 2014
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8. Reporting of funding sources and conflict of interest in the supportive and palliative oncology literature.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2012
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9. The drugs industry: a bad product well marketed.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2012
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10. Public availability of published research data in high-impact journals.PloS one · 2011
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11. Making sense of non-financial competing interests.PLoS medicine · 2008
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12. An audit of health products and services marketed on chiropractic websites in Alberta and consideration of these practices in the context of chiropractic codes of conduct and ethics.The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association · 2007
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13. Clinical studies in medical journals.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2007
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14. Conflicts of interest that are bigger than money but never disclosed.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2006
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15. Possible Bias in the Publication Trends of High Impact Factor Anesthesiology and Gastroenterology Journals -An Analysis of 5 Years' Data.Anesthesia, essays and researches
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Conflicts of interest that are bigger than money but never disclosed.2006
• Commented on by
  Clinical studies in medical journals.2007

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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