APRIL 10, 2019

GI Guidelines Often Fail to Disclose Financial Conflicts of Interest

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Samir C. Grover, MD

A significant proportion of authors of endoscopy guidelines in the United States fail to disclose their conflicts of interest, according to researchers in Canada, who also found a high prevalence of such conflicts in evidence-based resources that help guide the decisions of gastroenterologists at the point of care.

Industry payments to physicians have been shown to influence clinical behavior, including what drugs doctors prescribe to patients. “The nature of financial