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The Effect of Different Financial Competing Interest Statements on Readers' Perceptions of Clinical Educational Articles

NCT02548312 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1065

Last updated 2019-06-12

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Summary

Financial ties with industry are common among doctors, academics and institutions. This trial aims to investigate the influence of different types of industry-linked activities on readers' perceptions of clinical reviews. Two clinical reviews have been selected on medical topics and study participants (practicing doctors) will be sent one review each. The reviews will be identical except for the inclusion of one of four different permutations of competing interest statements. Participants will be asked to rate the one review they are sent based on the study outcomes (confidence, interest, importance and likeliness to change practice). The study focus is on educational articles as these are intended to guide patient care and convey the authors' interpretation of selected data.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

OTHER

Variations of financial competing interest statements

Participants will be randomised to receive 1 of 2 review articles on different topics. For each review there will be 4 groups. Each of the 4 groups will receive an identical version of the review article with the exception of the competing interest statement which will vary depending on group assignment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The BMJ

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sara Schroter, PhD · The BMJ

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-05-31
Completion
2016-05-31

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