| Ref ID | 308 |
| First Author | L. Bou-Karroum |
| Journal | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY & MANAGEMENT |
| Year Of Publishing | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6077276/pdf/ijhpm-7-711.pdf |
| Keywords |
• Disclosure • Policy • Allegiance |
| 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 |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Lebanon |
| Aim | To assess the frequency and different types of conflicts of interest that authors of systematic reviews on health policy and systems research report. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| 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). |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 200 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 571 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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