Relationships Between Authors of Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Pharmaceutical Industry

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Abstract
Interactions between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry have received increasing amounts of attention over the last several years. Several authors have described significant contact between the pharmaceutical industry and academic researchers,1 faculty physicians,2 community physicians,3 residents,4 and medical students.5 More importantly, these types of interactions have been shown to influence prescribing patterns,6 stimulate requests for addition of drugs to hospital formularies,2 result in favorable publications7 and research articles,8,9 and be related to the lack of publication of unfavorable articles.10