ArticlePLoS medicine2008
Making sense of non-financial competing interests.
Article in PLoS medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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
35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association between conflicts of interest and favourable recommendations in clinical guidelines, advisory committee reports, opinion pieces, and narrative reviews: systematic review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2020Pooled it
- Conflicts of interest in clinical guidelines, advisory committee reports, opinion pieces, and narrative reviews: associations with recommendations.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Periodontal treatment for preventing adverse pregnancy outcomes: a meta- and trial sequential analysis.PloS one · 2015Pooled it
- Identifying and mitigating bias in multiple aspects of modern clinical research.Communications medicine · 2026Review
- Irreproducible research and a typology of replication efforts.Research integrity and peer review · 2026Review
- A literature review of non-financial conflicts of interest in healthcare research and publication.BMC medical ethics · 2025Review
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- Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes for HTA Around the Globe: Exploring the Next Frontiers of HTA and Best Practices Comment on "Use of Evidence-informed Deliberative Processes by Health Technology Assessment Agencies Around the Globe".International journal of health policy and management · 2021Article
- The Policies for the Disclosure of Funding and Conflict of Interest in Surgery Journals: A Cross-Sectional Survey.World journal of surgery · 2021Article
- Status, Respect, and Stigma: A Qualitative Study of Non-financial Interests in Medicine.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2020Article
- Editors Should Declare Conflicts of Interest.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2019Article
- Scientific integrity issues in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: Improving research reproducibility, credibility, and transparency.Integrated environmental assessment and management · 2019Review
- Financial interests of patient organisations contributing to technology assessment at England's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: policy review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2019Article
- Academic conflict of interest.Intensive care medicine · 2019Review
- Using Social Media and Web-Based Networking in Collaborative Research: Protocol for the Geriatric Medicine Research Collaborative.JMIR research protocols · 2018Article
- Reporting of Financial and Non-financial Conflicts of Interest in Systematic Reviews on Health Policy and Systems Research: A Cross Sectional Survey.International journal of health policy and management · 2018Article
- A Typology of Nonfinancial Conflict in Population Health Research.American journal of public health · 2018Article
- Public health journals' requirements for authors to disclose funding and conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Coping with the Conflict-of-Interest Pandemic by Listening to and Doubting Everyone, Including Yourself.Science and engineering ethics · 2016Article
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Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
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Abstract
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Registered trials
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