Conflict of interest disclosure: striking a balance?

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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Understanding "interests": historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2025
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2. Ask a Doctor a Question: A Clinician's Message to the Industry.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025
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3. Modeling European health systems: a theoretical exercise.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2023
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4. Conflict of Interests in the Scientific Production on Vitamin D and COVID-19: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in public health · 2022
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5. Interaction between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry: A scoping review for developing a policy brief.Frontiers in public health · 2022
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6. Pricing vaccines and drugs in Europe: worth differentiating?The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2021
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7. Defensive medicine in Europe: a 'full circle'?The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2020
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8. Conflicts of interest in medicine: a never-ending story.Internal and emergency medicine · 2020
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9. Defensive medicine in Europe: a 'full circle'?The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2020
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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