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Randomised Controlled Trial to Measure the Effect of Different Financial Competing Interest Statements on Readers' Perceptions of Clinical Educational Articles
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Variations of financial competing interest statements for Healthy. Completed, enrolled 1,065 participants.
Detailed 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.
Study Details
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Interventions
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.