Lisa Bero, PhD and co-authors found a fairly consistent association between financial conflicts of interest and recommendations that favor clinical interventions relevant to the conflict.  They suggest that clinicians and healthcare decision makers avoid using opinion pieces with conflicted authors and primarily use clinical guidelines that are based on rigorous methodology and have clear policies of how to manage conflicts of interest, such as excluding or minimizing the role of members with conflicts and ensuring a broad skill set in the panel.  A more detailed publication appears as a Cochrane Review.  Read article>>