Citations of scientific results and conflicts of interest: the case of mammography screening.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In 2001, a Cochrane review of mammography screening questioned whether screening reduces breast cancer mortality, and a more comprehensive review in Lancet, also in 2001, reported considerable overdiagnosis and overtreatment. This led to a heated debate and a recent review of the evidence by UK experts intended to be independent.

Objective

To explore if general medical and specialty journals differed in accepting the results and methods of three Cochrane reviews on mammography screening.

Methods

We identified articles citing the Lancet review from 2001 or updated versions of the Cochrane review (last search 20 April 2012). We explored which results were quoted, whether the methods and results were accepted (explicit agreement or quoted without caveats), d

SUBMITTER: Rasmussen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3664368 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature