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Conflict of interest guidelines for clinical guidelines
Author(s) -
Williams* Michael J,
Kevat* Dev A S,
Loff Bebe
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja10.11130
Subject(s) - conflict of interest , medicine , health care , quality (philosophy) , clinical practice , public relations , nursing , political science , law , philosophy , epistemology
Summary Clinical guidelines are being increasingly produced to improve quality of care, but are vulnerable to bias. Only 15% of guidelines on the National Health and Medical Research Council portal from the most prolific developers have published conflict of interest statements, and fewer detail the processes used to manage conflicts. Comprehensive disclosure of conflicts is needed to safeguard the integrity of clinical guidelines and the medical profession. Peak bodies and clinicians should seek to promote an improvement to current poor practice.