Professional Societies Should Abstain From Authorship of Guidelines and Disease Definition Statements

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2018 Oct;11(10):e004889. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.004889.

Author

John P A Ioannidis¹

Affiliation

¹ Stanford Prevention Research Center, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), and Departments of Medicine, Health Research and Policy, Biomedical Data Science, and Statistics, Stanford University, CA.

PMID: 30354582
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.004889

No abstract available

Keywords: American Heart Association; bias; evidence-based medicine; guidelines; hypertension; industry.

MeSH terms

Authorship / standards*
Conflict of Interest
Evidence-Based Medicine / ethics
Evidence-Based Medicine / standards*
Humans
Journal Impact Factor
Periodicals as Topic / ethics
Periodicals as Topic / standards*
Practice Guidelines as Topic / standards*
Societies, Medical / ethics
Societies, Medical / standards*