TY - JOUR AU - Yu, Jiajie AU - Su, Guanyue AU - Hirst, Allison AU - Yang, Zhengyue AU - Zhang, You AU - Li, Youping PY - 2020 DA - 2020/10/19 TI - Identifying competing interest disclosures in systematic reviews of surgical interventions and devices: a cross-sectional survey JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 260 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - A competing interest is an important source of bias in research and disclosure is frequently employed as a strategy to manage it. Considering the importance of systematic reviews (SRs) and the varying prevalence of competing interests in different research fields, we conducted a survey to identify the range of competing interests in SRs assessing surgical interventions or devices and explored the association between the competing interest disclosures and authors’ conclusions. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01144-2 DO - 10.1186/s12874-020-01144-2 ID - Yu2020 ER -