Is transparency really a panacea?

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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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. COVID-19 Pandemic, Transparency, and "Polidemic" in the Republic of Korea.Asian bioethics review · 2021
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2. Drivers of the opioid crisis: An appraisal of financial conflicts of interest in clinical practice guideline panels at the peak of opioid prescribing.PloS one · 2020
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3. Association between gifts from pharmaceutical companies to French general practitioners and their drug prescribing patterns in 2016: retrospective study using the French Transparency in Healthcare and National Health Data System databases.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2019
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4. Conflict of interest disclosure: striking a balance?The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2019
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5. What Does 'Unpaid Consultant' Signify? A Survey of Euphemistic Language in Conflict of Interest Declarations.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018
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6. On the pitfalls of disclosure statements.Public health nutrition · 2016
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7. Proliferation of gynaecological scientific societies and their financial transparency: an Italian survey.BMJ open · 2016
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8. Under-reporting of conflicts of interest among trialists: a cross-sectional study.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2015
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9. 'If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change'*.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2014
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10. Why transparency isn't an unassailable philosophical principle.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2014
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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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