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BACKGROUND: The producers of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) may not disclose industry funding in their CPGs. We reviewed Canadian national CPGs to examine the existence and disclosure of industry-related organizational funding in the CPGs, financial conflicts of interest of committee members and organizational procedures for managing financial conflicts of interest. METHODS: For this descriptive study, we searched the asset map of the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Evidence Alliance and the CPG Infobase for CPGs published between Jan. 1, 2016, and Nov. 30, 2018. Eligible guidelines had to have a national focus and either a first-line drug recommendation or a screening recommendation leading to drug treatment. One investigator reviewed all CPG titles to exclude those that were clearly ineligible. Two reviewers independently reviewed all remaining guidelines and extracted data. We analyzed the data descriptively. RESULTS: We included 21 CPGs: 3 from government-sponsored organizations, 9 from disease or condition interest groups and 9 from medical professional societies. None of the 3 government-sponsored organizations reported industry funding, and none of their committee members disclosed financial conflicts of interest. Among the 18 disease or condition interest groups and medical professional societies, 14 (93%) of the 15 that disclosed funding sources on websites (3 did not disclose) reported organizational funding from industry, but none disclosed this information in the CPGs; 12 (86%) of the 14 with conflict-of-interest disclosure statements in the CPG (4 did not include disclosures) had at least 1 committee member with a financial conflict (mean proportion of committee members with a conflict 56%); and for all 8 CPGs with identifiable chairs or cochairs (chairs or cochairs not reported for 10) at least 1 of these people had a financial conflict of interest. None of the guidelines described a plan to manage organizational financial conflicts of interest. INTERPRETATION: Canadian CPGs are vulnerable to industry influence through funding of producers of guidelines and through the financial conflicts of interest of committee members. The CPG producers that receive industry funding should disclose organizational financial conflicts in the CPGs, should engage independent oversight committees and should restrict voting on recommendations to guideline panelists who have no financial conflicts., Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) support clinical decision-making and health care practice standards and are among the most-cited articles in medical journals. There is recognition of the need to develop CPGs [...]

A number of free websites provide either individual U.S. employee pay data or the raw components to derive them. These include public company and investment adviser Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

If your company is not in the midst of a 'digital transformation,' it's an outlier. McKinsey estimates that 80% of large companies are, or at least believe themselves to be. [...]

This edition lists all Credit Rating actions that occurred between Feb. 1 and Feb. 29, 2020. For the Credit Rating of any company rated by AM Best and basic company [...]

The following tables present statistics for the U.S. international investment position that were released on March 31, 2020. Additional historical statistics for the tables can be viewed and downloaded from [...]

In ICMA's 2020 Vision report, I wrote the following prediction about social media as a potential threat to democracy (1): Without local experimentation, social media will become a toxin in [...]

IN SEPTEMBER, THE Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an American organization that monitors attacks on freedom of the press worldwide, issued a report on what it called a major threat [...]

This edition lists all Credit Rating actions that occurred between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2020. For the Credit Rating of any company rated by AM Best and basic company [...]

Crossties come in many forms, with wood being the most prevalent. Concrete ties are the standard for high-performance rail and select heavy-haul freight applications. Steel and composite have been making [...]

MM&M is pleased to present this special showcase of companies that are helping to shape the future of the industry. Here you will find a series of comprehensive profiles detailing [...]

YOU'LL BE HARD PRESSED to find a harder worker than Eric Leija. The resident kettlebell master at the Onnit Academy trains a variety of one-on-one and group classes at the [...]

Location-based marketing, the practice of using a person's physical location to target him with just the right advertising message at just the right time, is certainly not new. Its roots [...]

Last month we noted that Amazon is disrupting the industry's distribution model by soliciting Chinese OEM producers to bypass the distributor and sell direct to consumers, using the Amazon website [...]

This edition lists all Credit Rating actions that occurred between December 1 and December 31, 2019. For the Credit Rating of any company rated by AM Best and basic company [...]

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