ArticleBMJ open2022
A cross-sectional examination of conflict-of-interest disclosures of physician-authors publishing in high-impact US medical journals.
Article in BMJ open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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
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
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Disclosure of Industry Relationships by Otolaryngologists.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- Payments by Drug and Medical Device Manufacturers to US Peer Reviewers of Major Medical Journals.JAMA · 2024Article
- Discrepancies in Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures Among Physicians Receiving Compensation for Monoclonal Antibody Drugs.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- Disclosing Conflicts of Interest to Potential Research Participants: Good for Nothing?Ethics & human research · 2023Article
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- A cross-sectional examination of conflict-of-interest disclosures of physician-authors publishing in high-impact US medical journals.BMJ open · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the accuracy of self-reported financial conflict-of-interest (COI) disclosures in the
designCross-sectional investigation. DATA SOURCES: Original clinical-trial research articles published in
main outcome measuresFinancial data reported to Open Payments from 2014 to 2016 (a time period that included all subjects' requisite disclosure windows) were compared with self-reported disclosure forms submitted to the journals. Payments selected for analysis were defined by Open Payments as 'general payments.' Payment types were categorised as 'disclosed,' 'undisclosed,' 'indeterminate' or 'unrelated'.
resultsThirty-one articles from
conclusionsHigh payment amounts, as well as high proportions of undisclosed financial compensation, regardless of amount received, comprised potential COIs for two influential US medical journals. Further research is needed to explain why such high proportions of general payments were undisclosed and whether journals that rely on self-reported COI disclosure need to reconsider their policies.
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