Reporting of financial and non-financial conflicts of interest in systematic reviews on health policy and systems research: a cross sectional survey

Ref ID 308
First Author L. Bou-Karroum
Journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
Year Of Publishing 2018
URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6077276/pdf/ijhpm-7-711.pdf
Keywords Allegiance
Disclosure
Policy
Problem(s) Conflict of interest statement or disclosures for review authors missing
Non-financial conflicts of interest of review authors
Financial conflicts of interest of review authors
Number of systematic reviews included 200
Summary of Findings Twenty percent of systematic reviews did not include authors’ conflict of interest disclosures. Of the 160 systematic reviews that included conflict of interest disclosures, 15% had at least one author reporting at least one type of conflict of interest. The two most frequently reported types of conflict of interest were individual financial conflict of interest and individual scholarly conflict of interest (11% and 4% respectively). Institutional conflict of interest were less commonly reported than individual conflict of interest (3% and 15% respectively) and non-financial conflict of interest were less commonly reported than financial conflict of interest (6% and 14% respectively).
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? Not Applicable
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? Yes