[Conflicts of interest in the medical profession].

Rogelio Altisent, María-Teresa Delgado-Marroquín, María-Pilar Astier-Peña

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Article in Atencion primaria, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

[Conflicts of interest, an insidious blight on medicine].Atencion primaria · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rogelio AltisentCátedra de Profesionalismo y Ética Clínica, Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Zaragoza, España. Electronic address: altisent@unizar.es.

María-Teresa Delgado-MarroquínCátedra de Profesionalismo y Ética Clínica, Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Zaragoza, España.

María-Pilar Astier-PeñaCátedra de Profesionalismo y Ética Clínica, Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Zaragoza, España.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last decades the world of medicine has become familiar with the disclosure of conflicts of interest (CDI). The requirement for authors to declare their CDIs concerning their publications is a common issue. Another topic for CDI is related to the medical decision making on prescription. Finally, professionals being in positions of responsibility in professional societies or associations and healthcare institutions are asked to show their disclosure of CDI. These debates show up the interest of democratic societies for justice and social ethics that demand fair play in making decisions that may affect third parties, particularly patients. In the present work, the concept and types of CDIs are analyzed, and authors make proposals for the management of CDI in the medical profession.

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Conflict of InterestClinical Decision-MakingDisclosureDrug IndustryHumansPractice Patterns, Physicians'PublishingConflicto de interesesConflicts of interestEducación médicaFinanciaciónFundingIndustria farmacéuticaMedical educationMedical professionPharmaceutical industryProfesionalismoProfesión médicaProfessionalism

Identifiers

PMID31248656

DOI10.1016/j.aprim.2019.05.004

PMCPMC6837014

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