Disclosure of financial competing interests in randomised controlled trials: cross sectional review

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Abstract
Financial relationships among industry, investigators, and academic institutions are growing increasingly complex, raising concerns about sponsors' considerable and perhaps inappropriate involvement in the conduct and reporting of biomedical research. 1 2 Medical journals use disclosure as a primary mechanism for managing these conflicts, and many have adopted the 1997 uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals to guide this process.3 According to the 1997 uniform requirements, authors are asked to “acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for their work.”3 For industry support for specific projects, authors are asked to describe the sponsor's role in the design, analysis, and reporting of the study data.3 If there has been no such involvement, the manuscript is expected to explicitly state this fact.3 Previous work has shown that many published papers do not contain statements of financial competing interests.4 …