Background The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate evidence about
authorship issues and provide synthesis of research on authorship across all research …

Background Women comprise a growing proportion of Veterans seeking care at Veterans
Affairs (VA) healthcare facilities. VA initiatives have accelerated changes in services for …

Background The effects of clinical-trial funding on the interpretation of trial results are poorly
understood. We examined how such support affects physicians' reactions to trials with a …

Background Academic literature extensively documents gender disparities in the medical
profession with regard to salary, promotion, and government funded research. However …

Background Bias in reporting efficacy and toxicity in clinical trials may impact treatment
decisions. Here, we report quality of reporting of efficacy and of toxicity in articles describing …

Background Bias in industry-sponsored trials is common and the interpretation of the results
can be particularly distorted in favour of the sponsor's product. We investigated sponsors' …

Background Last this year in this journal, Barbour and colleagues reported a study of
“marketing trials” in leading medical journals (Trials 2016; 17: 31). In this commentary I …

Abstract Background The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
Recommendations set ethical and editorial standards for article publication in most leading …

Purpose Growing participation by industry in cancer research has resulted in increased
reporting of conflicts of interest (COI). We aimed to test any association between authors' …

Purpose The quality of the supportive and palliative oncology literature is unclear. We
examined five indicators of study quality in the supportive and palliative oncology literature …