{"id":596,"date":"2013-07-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2016-08-01T08:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:58:01","slug":"does-funding-source-influence-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Does Funding Source Influence Guidelines?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a little hullabaloo<\/a> recently regarding the influence of financial conflicts-of-interest on guidelines \u2013 the result of a recent BMJ investigative report.  But, what effect do these conflicts truly have?  Is there any way to compare, side-by-side, a conflicted guideline with a non-conflicted guideline?<\/p>\n

Why \u2013 yes!<\/p>\n

In the very popular American Journal of Medical Quality comes this tiny gem, a comparison between two guidelines written just over a year apart.  Both guidelines describe treatment options for Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia, and were both published in the same journal.  One guideline was written by a financially untarnished societal group, while the other guideline was written by sponsored experts.  In addition, the sponsored guideline had supplemental assistance by a professional scientific writing group funded by pharma.<\/p>\n

Table 4 is a lovely, side by side comparison of the major treatment recommendations.  Unsurprisingly, various thrombopoietin-receptor agonists and anti-D immunoglobulin received top billing in the sponsored guideline, while more conventional therapies were recommended in the non-sponsored guideline.<\/p>\n

This article was, however, written by members of the non-conflicted guideline group \u2013 so, perhaps there’s some ulterior motive at work.  Regardless, at least, it’s a fascinating look at the tangible effects of financial conflicts-of-interest.<\/p>\n

“Conflicts of Interest and Clinical Recommendations: Comparison of Two Concurrent Clinical Practice Guidelines for Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia Developed by Different Methods”
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23550214<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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There’s been a little hullabaloo recently regarding the influence of financial conflicts-of-interest on guidelines \u2013 the result of a recent BMJ investigative report.  But, what effect do these conflicts truly have?  Is there any way to compare, side-by-side, a conflicted guideline with a non-conflicted guideline? Why \u2013 yes! In the very popular American Journal of … Continue reading “Does Funding Source Influence Guidelines?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-quality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7KesJ-9C","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emlitofnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}