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Conflicts of interest and expertise of independent commenters in news stories about medical research

Michael T.M. Wang, Andrew Grey and Mark J. Bolland
CMAJ April 18, 2017 189 (15) E553-E559; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160538
Michael T.M. Wang
Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Andrew Grey
Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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  • For correspondence: a.grey@auckland.ac.nz
Mark J. Bolland
Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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    Selection of source research articles published in 7 high-impact general or internal medicine journals between Jan. 1 and Mar. 31, 2013. Media news stories generated in response were identified from Factiva (https://global.factiva.com), a global news database.

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    Prevalence and reporting of conflicts of interests. Top panel: Proportions of independent and editorial comments associated with financial or academic conflicts of interests. Bottom panel: Proportions of financial or academic conflicts of interest reported in news stories or editorials: light green bars indicate conflicts of interest stated explicitly, dark green bars indicate implied conflicts of interest. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.

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    Disposition of independent comments toward study results, according to congruence of associated conflicts of interest with source research findings. The congruence of the academic conflicts of interest of 2 commenters and the financial conflict of interest of 1 commenter with the results of the source research was indeterminate.

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    Interassessor agreement on presence of expertise, presence and reporting of conflicts of interest and disposition of comments toward source research

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    Expertise associated with independent comments and journal editorials

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