Evaluation of Conflicts of Interest among Participants of the Japanese Nephrology Clinical Practice Guideline.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Rigorous and transparent management strategies for conflicts of interest and clinical practice guidelines with the best available evidence are necessary for the development of nephrology guidelines. However, there was no study assessing financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interest, quality of evidence underlying the Japanese guidelines for CKD, and conflict of interest policies for guideline development.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

This cross-sectional study examined financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interest among all 142 authors of CKD guidelines issued by the Japanese Society of Nephrology using a personal payment database from all 92 major Japanese pharmaceutical companies between 2016 and 2019 and self-citations by g

SUBMITTER: Murayama A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9269663 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature