Organizations producing Clinical Practice Guidelines (statements designed to guide and optimize patient care for specific clinical circumstances) often have conflict-of-interest policies that fail to meet the Institute of Medicine's standards, and/or frequently violate their own stated conflict-of-interest policies--potentially undermining public trust in Clinical Practice Guidelines.
###
Press-only preview: https://plos.io/3uvCrBL
Contact: Dr. Henry Brems, jhbrems@gmail.com, Ph.: 615-943-2611.
Article Title: Analysis of conflict of interest policies among organizations producing clinical practice guidelines
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249267
Journal
PLOS One