Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4673

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Publication type: Journal Article

Bero L, Galbraith A, Rennie D
Publication of sponsored symposiums in medical journals
New England Journal of Medicine 1993; 328:1197-1198

Abstract:

Angel is primarily concerned with protecting advertising rather than the integrity of medical literature. Blinding would have improved the study but there was only one field that was subject to subjective measurements. 26% of symposiums focused on a single drug indicating that they were not balanced. There seems to be a direct link between advertising and symposiums.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/journal advertisements/ sponsored symposia & conferences/ publication bias/ journal supplements/ quality of information/INFLUENCE OF PROMOTION: PUBLICATION/PROMOTION DISGUISED: JOURNAL SUPPLEMENTS, CONTROLLED CIRCULATION JOURNALS AND NEWSLETTERS

Notes:

Reply to: Jack E. Angel, New England Journal of Medicine 1993;328:1196; Barry M. Massie et al., New England Journal of Medicine 1993;328:1196-1197; Mark S. Roberts, New England Journal of Medicine 1993;328:1197; Carol K. Kasper, New England Journal of Medicine 1993;328:1197; Thomas E. Finucane, New England Journal of Medicine 1993;328:1197.