La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas / The relevance of declaring an interest conflict in medical journals
Rev. méd. Chile
; 131(1): 7-9, 2003.
Artigo
em Espanhol
| LILACS
| ID: lil-342216
Biblioteca responsável:
CL1.1
RESUMO
Medical journals are often at risk of difussinng research articles, reviews, position articles, editorials or letters ubose message has been influenced by a conflict of interest. The readers may then be induced to accept conclusions and recommendations based on bisaaed protocols or an unwarranted interpretation of the results. Financial support or professional links witb pharmaceutical companies or other supporting agencies are the most common sources of conflict of interests, often difficult to detect. Similarly, reviews of manuscripts can be biassed by personal relationsbips (good or bad) between reviewers and autbors, by academic competition or intellectual passion, becoming otber sources of conflict of interest. Even uben a potential conflict of interest exists, it may not necessarily bave influenced the manuscript or its review but in order to defend the transparency of the editorial process, from submission to publication, authors, reviewers and editors sbould declare any conflict of interest they may have and allou others to decide whether the action has been biassed or not. In the present issue of Revista Médica de Chile, and updated text of the Instructions to Authors establishes that all autbors should sign a statement of habing or not a conflict of interest, clarifying which aspects of the work might have been affected by it
Texto completo:
Disponível
Coleções:
Bases de dados internacionais
Base de dados:
LILACS
Assunto principal:
Conflito de Interesses
/
Publicação Periódica
Tipo de estudo:
Guia de prática clínica
Limite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Espanhol
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Assunto da revista:
Medicina
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Chile
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Sociedad Médica de Santiag/CL
/
Sociedad Médica de Santiago/CL