An important collection of resources from the British Medical Journal (BMJ)
Growing evidence shows that extensive financial relationships between industry and healthcare decision makers distort scientific research, medical education and the practice of medicine. The biggest problem is that industry sponsored studies produce more favourable results creating biased evidence that overplays benefits and downplays harms. In response, many individuals and groups around the world are moving towards independence from commercial interests in research, education, practice and policy. This BMJ collection charts and encourages that move.
Editorials
Commercial interests, transparency, and independence
Ray Moynihan, Helen Macdonald, Carl Heneghan, Lisa Bero & Fiona Godlee
Declaring interests and restoring trust in medicine
Carl Heneghan & Margaret McCartney
Industry influence in indoor tanning research
Jerod Stapleton & Joel Hillhouse
Financial relations between leaders of US medical societies and industry
Jake Checketts & Matt Vassar
Commercial influence and covid-19
Ray Moynihan, Helen Macdonald, Lisa Bero & Fiona Godlee
Analysis
Pathways to Independence: towards producing and using trustworthy evidence
Ray Moynihan, Per Vandvik, Beate Wieseler, et al.
Improving researchers’ conflict of interest declarations
Quinn Grundy, Adam G Dunn & Lisa Bero
Research
“Asset exchange”—interactions between patient groups and pharmaceutical industry
Lisa Parker, Alice Fabbri, Quinn Grundy, Barbara Mintzes & Lisa Bero
Effect of revealing authors’ conflicts of interests in peer review: randomized controlled trial
Leslie John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder & Michael Callaham
Association between gifts from pharmaceutical companies to French general practitioners and their drug prescribing patterns in 2016: retrospective study using the French Transparency in Healthcare and National Health Data System databases
Bruno Goupil, Frédéric Balusson, Florian Naudet, et al.
Association between financial links to indoor tanning industry and conclusions of published studies on indoor tanning: systematic review
Lola Adekunle, Rebecca Chen, Lily Morrison, et al.
Mixed methods evaluation of workshops for citizen health advocates about financial conflicts of interests in healthcare
Ray Moynihan, Alice Fabbri, Lisa Parker & Lisa Bero
Financial ties between leaders of influential US professional medical associations and industry: cross sectional study
Ray Moynihan, Loai Albarqouni, Conrad Nangla, Adam Dunn, Joel Lexchin, & Lisa Bero
Opinion
I’m more susceptible to drug company money that I’d like to be
Lisa Parker
Cochrane announces a new, more rigorous “conflict of interest” policy
Karla Soares-Weiser
The sun is shining on the South: advocacy and regulation of conflicts of interest in Chile
Bernardo Aguilera, Juan Carlos Almonte & Rodrigo Irarrázaval
Can expert bias be reduced in medical guidelines?
Sheldon Greenfield
The world’s most influential medical leaders are still dining on pharma’s pizza
Ray Moynihan
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