Effect of different financial competing interest statements on readers' perceptions of clinical educational articles: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate how different competing interest (COI) statements affect clinical readers' perceptions of education articles.

Design

Randomised controlled trial.

Setting and participants

Random sample of UK doctors.

Interventions

We created four permutations of each of two clinical reviews (on gout or dyspepsia), which varied only in terms of the COI statement. Volunteers were blinded and randomised to receive one review and asked to complete a questionnaire after reading it. Blinded factorial analyses of variance and analyses of covariance were carried out to assess the influence of each review and type of COI on outcomes.

Primary and secondary outcomes

Confidence in the article's conclusions (primary outcome), its importance, their level of i

SUBMITTER: Schroter S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377520 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature