Transparent texts: authors of scientific articles often have conflicts of interest. It is important for these to be communicated transparently to the readers.

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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Relationship Between Declarations of Conflict of Interests and Reporting Positive Outcomes in Iranian Dental Journals.Science and engineering ethics · 2019
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2. Requirements of health policy and services journals for authors to disclose financial and non-financial conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional study.Health research policy and systems · 2017
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3. The effect of a conflict of interest disclosure form using closed questions on the number of positive conflicts of interest declared - a controlled study.PeerJ · 2013
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4. A survey of german physicians in private practice about contacts with pharmaceutical sales representatives.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2010
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5. Our readers' voice. Letters to the editor are an important component of the discussion of scientific articles, in Deutsches Arzteblatt as in other journals. our correspondence pages reflect a diversity of opinion thanks to the love of debate among our readers--and thanks to a few rules.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2009
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  A survey of german physicians in private practice about contacts with pharmaceutical sales representatives.2010

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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