ArticleWorld psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)2007
Financial conflicts of interest in psychiatry.
Article in World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
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- How effective are antidepressants for depression over the long term? A critical review of relapse prevention trials and the issue of withdrawal confounding.Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology · 2020Review
- Sustainable development for global mental health: a typology and systematic evidence mapping of external actors in low-income and middle-income countries.BMJ global health · 2019Article
- Methodological Flaws, Conflicts of Interest, and Scientific Fallacies: Implications for the Evaluation of Antidepressants' Efficacy and Harm.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2017Review
- US studies may overestimate effect sizes in softer research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- Financial and non-financial conflicts of interests in psychiatry.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2010Review
- The new impact factor of World Psychiatry.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2010Article
- Are psychiatrists an endangered species? Observations on internal and external challenges to the profession.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2010Article
- The quest for a meaningful evidence base in psychiatry.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2009Article
- [Conflict of interest declarations in scientific publications].Der Nervenarzt · 2008Article
- Should the drug industry work with key opinion leaders? No.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2008Article
- Experience counts.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2008Article
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Abstract
The issue of conflicts of interest has brought clinical medicine to an unprecedented crisis of credibility. The situation of psychiatry does not appear to be different from other areas of medicine. The problems caused by the increasing financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and researchers and clinicians can be addressed only by a complex effort encompassing both the establishment of lines of support of independent researchers who are free of substantial conflicts of interest and better disclosure policies and conduct regulations as to financial ties. Such effort requires a bold shift from current, largely inadequate strategies. In the long run it may entail, however, substantial advantages to patients, clinicians, researchers, the health industry and the civil society at large. Psychiatry, in view of its humanistic and social roots, may lead this effort.
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