When the negotiation protocol fails to sort out the conflict automatically, the declaration of conflict for off-line resolution and search for neutral body, which is in this study referred as the LEA.
There were also a number of methodological issues in many of reviews that we appraised, including the lack of duplicate assessment of study eligibility, inclusion of studies other than RCTs, lack of publication bias assessment, lack of declaration of conflict of interest, and inappropriate use of meta-analysis [ 24, 25].
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27 28 A total of four CPGs 23 29 33 36 stated that they received drug company sponsorship, but only one of these guidelines declared that the views of the funding bodies did not influence the recommendations, and a declaration of the conflicts of interest of the guideline developers was not provided for 13 CPGs.
