Conflicts of interest disclosure forms and management in critical care clinical practice guidelines

link.springer.com October 19, 2018

The current conflicts of interest (COIs) disclosure forms of selected professional societies provide more attention to financial disclosures and COIs and less attention to detecting and managing intellectual COIs, while rarely addressing institutional COIs. We provide some suggestions for guideline developers on the classification and management of different COIs in the context of CPGs. All selected professional critical care societies require that members declare direct financial COIs; four societies inquire specifically about intellectual COIs (involvement in primary research). We searched PubMed and MEDLINE for CPGs published between 2013 and 2018 in English language and addressed general critical care topics.