Disclosure of financial competing interests in randomised controlled trials: cross sectional review

doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7388.526

BMJ 2003;326:526-527 ( 8 March )

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Disclosure of financial competing interests in randomised controlled trials: cross sectional review

Cary P Gross, assistant professor ^a, Anu R Gupta, clinical scholar ^b, Harlan M Krumholz, associate professor of medicine ^c.

^a Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine,Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA, ^b Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, ^c Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine

Correspondence to: C P Gross cary.gross@yale.edu

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Financial relationships among industry, investigators, and academic institutions are growing increasingly complex, raisingconcerns about sponsors' considerable and perhaps inappropriateinvolvement in the conduct and reporting of biomedical research. ¹ ² Medical journals use disclosure as a primary mechanism for managingthese conflicts, and many have adopted the 1997 uniform requirementsfor manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals to guide thisprocess.³

According to the 1997 uniform requirements, authors are asked to "acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support fortheir work."³ For industry support for specific projects, authorsare asked to describe the sponsor's role in the design, analysis,and reporting of the study data.³ If there has been no suchinvolvement, the manuscript is expected to explicitly state thisfact.³

Previous work has shown that many published papers do not contain statements of financial competing interests.⁴ However,little is known about journals' adherence to other parts of thedisclosure guidelines or about the . . . [Full text of this article]

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