The Sunshine Act: commercial conflicts of interest and the limits of transparency.

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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Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force and Conflicts of Interest.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2022
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6. A Ray of Sunshine: Transparency in Physician-Industry Relationships Is Not Enough.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021
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7. 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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8. Prevalence and Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest in Dermatology Patient Advocacy Organizations.JAMA dermatology · 2019
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9. If we want things to change, we need to eliminate commercial conflicts of interest.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2015
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10. Is transparency really a panacea?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2014
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11. Despise the free lunch.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association
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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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