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Only one of the 45 guidelines (2%) disclosed author conflicts of interest.
In a recent cross-sectional study [ 15] evaluating 45 guidelines from Danish clinical specialty societies, 96% of guidelines had one or more authors with a conflict of interest (independent validation), but only 2% disclosed author conflicts of interest.
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Only three of eight articles disclosed authors' conflicts of interest with Sanofi-Aventis.
Eight review articles were identified, but only three disclosed authors' financial conflicts of interest, despite easily accessible information to the contrary.
The multi-modal screening methods applied included: MEDLINE, (used to identify published papers that disclose author financial interests), and the following internet search engines: Lexis-Nexis, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office internet site on patents awarded, and the internet site for SEC filings.
The percentage of disclosing authors is 6.2% based on all years, 10.8% based on publications under explicit journal disclosure policies, and 19.0% based on 1999 alone.
There were 26 cases in which one article disclosed an author's financial interests and another article declared that the same author had nothing to disclose.
3. Laine, C., Schaeffer, M. & Stack, C.. Conflicts of interest disclosed by authors of manuscripts submitted to a general medical journal Proc.
Only 2 of the 70 articles disclosed the authors' potential conflicts of interest.
For each of these authors, we first counted the number of unique organizations with which the author disclosed a relationship in any of the author's articles.
The Post agreed not to disclose the author's name to protect the person from retaliation.
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