Citing "concerns about misleading reporting of industry-sponsored research," the journal refused to publish such work unless there was at least one author with no ties to the industry who would formally vouch for the data.
Finally, the results of this study cannot be generalised to other drugs and drug classes, but they do add to the substantial body of empirical findings demonstrating poor adverse event assessment and reporting practices and a distortion of evidence through selective reporting of industry-sponsored psychotropic drug research.
However, if it simply had the effect of deflecting reports of industry-funded studies from a journal with a more-demanding policy (ie JAMA) to journals with less-demanding policies, then the overall effect on the literature would have been minimal.
The overestimate probably is greatest for English language reports of industry-sponsored trials, the great majority of which originate from the USA.
I was delighted to note that you made mention of the Federal Trade Commission report and of (industry critic) Sloan Bashinsky and his book, "Home Buyers: Lambs to the Slaughter?", among other things.
Although nearly half of building engineers reported knowledge of industry guidelines for preventing Legionella colonization of potable water systems, only 13% of sampled water heaters were set at the recommended temperature of >60°C (140°F) (16).
In the future, we recommend that high-quality, prospective, cost-effectiveness analysis be planned alongside the intervention trials and that these be designed, conducted, analyzed, and reported independent of industry sponsors.
Studies that clearly described a source of support were categorised into those reporting some form of industry involvement and those reporting sources of funding not including an industrial party.
Studies reporting some form of industry involvement were more often registered (33%) than studies reporting another source of funding (11%), and studies without a (reported) source of (external) funding (9%; p<0.001).
