Organizations producing Clinical Practice Guidelines (statements designed to guide and optimize patient care for specific clinical circumstances) often have conflict-of-interest policies that fail to meet the Institute of Medicine's standards, and/or frequently violate their own stated conflict-of-interest policies--potentially undermining public trust in Clinical Practice Guidelines.
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Article Title: Analysis of conflict of interest policies among organizations producing clinical practice guidelines
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249267
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