La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas

Medical journals are often at risk of difussing research articles, reviews, position articles, editorials or letters whose message has been influenced by a conflict of interest. The readers may then be induced to accept conclusions and recommendations based on biassed protocols or an unwarranted int...

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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720030001000012003-05-13La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas Manuscripts, medical Periodicals Writing Medical journals are often at risk of difussing research articles, reviews, position articles, editorials or letters whose message has been influenced by a conflict of interest. The readers may then be induced to accept conclusions and recommendations based on biassed protocols or an unwarranted interpretation of the results. Financial support or professional links with 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 relationships (good or bad) between reviewers and authors, by academic competition or intellectual passion, becoming other sources of conflict of interest. Even when a potential conflict of interest exists, it may not necessarily have 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 should declare any conflict of interest they may have and allow others to decide whether the action has been biassed or not. In the present issue of Revista Médica de Chile, an updated text of the Instructions to Authors establishes that all authors should sign a statement of having or not a conflict of interest, clarifying which aspects of the work might have been affected by it (Rev Med Chile 2003; 131: 7-9)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.131 n.1 20032003-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872003000100001es10.4067/S0034-98872003000100001
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topic Manuscripts, medical
Periodicals
Writing
spellingShingle Manuscripts, medical
Periodicals
Writing
La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas
description Medical journals are often at risk of difussing research articles, reviews, position articles, editorials or letters whose message has been influenced by a conflict of interest. The readers may then be induced to accept conclusions and recommendations based on biassed protocols or an unwarranted interpretation of the results. Financial support or professional links with 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 relationships (good or bad) between reviewers and authors, by academic competition or intellectual passion, becoming other sources of conflict of interest. Even when a potential conflict of interest exists, it may not necessarily have 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 should declare any conflict of interest they may have and allow others to decide whether the action has been biassed or not. In the present issue of Revista Médica de Chile, an updated text of the Instructions to Authors establishes that all authors should sign a statement of having or not a conflict of interest, clarifying which aspects of the work might have been affected by it (Rev Med Chile 2003; 131: 7-9)
title La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas
title_short La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas
title_full La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas
title_fullStr La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas
title_full_unstemmed La importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas
title_sort la importancia de declarar un conflicto de intereses en las revistas médicas
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2003
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