Time trends in the reporting of conflicts of interest, funding and affiliation with industry in intensive care research: a systematic review

Michael Darmon; Julie Helms; Audrey De Jong; Peter Buhl Hjortrup; Emmanuel Weiss; Anders Granholm; Riccardo Pinciroli; Charlotte Poussardin; Marie Warrer Petersen; Stéphanie Sigaut; Bruna Brandao Barreto; Morten Hylander Moller; Elie Azoulay

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Time trends in the reporting of conflicts of interest, funding and affiliation with industry in intensive care research: a systematic review

Michael Darmon^*, Julie Helms, Audrey De Jong, Peter Buhl Hjortrup, Emmanuel Weiss, Anders Granholm, Riccardo Pinciroli, Charlotte Poussardin, Marie Warrer Petersen, Stéphanie Sigaut, Bruna Brandao Barreto, Morten Hylander Moller, Elie Azoulay

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Purpose: Conflict of interest (COI) may compromise, or have the appearance of compromising, a researcher’s judgment or integrity in conducting or reporting research. We sought to assess time trends of COI and funding statement reporting in the critical care literature. Methods: PubMed was searched by using Medical Subject Headings and the appropriate corresponding keywords: “INTENSIVE CARE UNIT” or “ICU” as a major topic. Four years in a 15-year time period (2001–2016) were arbitrarily chosen and one study month was randomly selected for each study period. Studies published during the selected months were included in the analysis. Results: Three hundred and seventy-four studies were evaluated, including five reviews (1.3%) and ten randomized clinical trials (RCTs) (2.7%). COI statements were available in 65% of the studies and 8% had declared COI. COI statement rate, declared COI and funding statements increased over time, while the number of authors affiliated with industry and the discordance between the lack of COI statement and affiliation with industry decreased. Declared COI were more frequent in 2011–2016 as compared to 2001–2010 (OR 4.06; 95% CI 1.15–25.79) and in the higher quartile of a journal’s impact factor (OR of 16.73; 95% CI 3.28–306.20). Surprisingly, focus of the study, country of the first author and/or endorsement of the study by a trial group were not associated with COI statements. Conclusion: Our study suggests COI reporting to have been unintuitive to most investigators and unreliable before ICMJE statements, and that strong incentives are needed to implement adequate reporting of COI.

Original language	English
Journal	Intensive Care Medicine
Volume	44
Issue number	10
Pages (from-to)	1669-1678
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0342-4642
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5350-2
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Bias
Bibliometrics
Conflicts of interest
Disclosure/statistics and numerical data
Editorial policies
Journal impact factor
Periodicals as topic/standards

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Darmon, M., Helms, J., De Jong, A., Hjortrup, P. B., Weiss, E., Granholm, A., Pinciroli, R., Poussardin, C., Petersen, M. W., Sigaut, S., Barreto, B. B., Moller, M. H., & Azoulay, E. (2018). Time trends in the reporting of conflicts of interest, funding and affiliation with industry in intensive care research: a systematic review. Intensive Care Medicine, 44(10), 1669-1678. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5350-2

Darmon, M, Helms, J, De Jong, A, Hjortrup, PB, Weiss, E, Granholm, A, Pinciroli, R, Poussardin, C, Petersen, MW, Sigaut, S, Barreto, BB, Moller, MH & Azoulay, E 2018, 'Time trends in the reporting of conflicts of interest, funding and affiliation with industry in intensive care research: a systematic review', Intensive Care Medicine, vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 1669-1678. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5350-2

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Time trends in the reporting of conflicts of interest, funding and affiliation with industry in intensive care research: a systematic review

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