Spinal analgesia: where is the evidence?

Reporting of Funding Sources and Conflict of Interest in the Supportive and Palliative Oncology Literature

“…Without proper documentation, it is not clear whether the cost of research was subsidized by patients, institutions, researchers, industry, or other third parties. Because funding support represents a significant source of bias in study design, conduction, and interpretation, 6,16–18 it is critical that its reporting be mandated by journals universally. Both the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses criteria, which were, respectively, developed to assess the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews, have included funding reporting on their checklists.…”

A Successful Palliative Care Intervention for Cancer Pain Refractory to Intrathecal Analgesia

“…26 However, other investigators have suggested that adequately powered, well-designed, and non-industry-funded clinical trials are required before this invasive intervention can be included as part of routine care. 27 …”

Disclosure of sources of funding in biomedical journals. Descriptive study of four Spanish publications

“…La investigación en medicina es costosa, por lo que requiere de un importante esfuerzo económico para su realización. Hay evidencias de que el origen de la financiación de la investigación puede ser una fuente significativa de sesgo, tanto en el diseño como en la realización e interpretación de un estudio, por lo que resulta fundamental que su declaración sea un requisito indispensable para la publicación de los resultados [1][2][3] . En consecuencia, la declaración de las fuentes de financiación ha sido incluida como uno de los ítems a tener en cuenta en la evaluación de la calidad de las publicaciones de ensayos clínicos aleatorizados 4 y de revisiones sistemáticas 5 .…”