Journal article
Industry funding and the reporting quality of large long-term weight loss trials
Abstract
Background:Quality of reporting (QR) in industry-funded research is a concern of the scientific community. Greater scrutiny of industry-sponsored research reporting has been suggested, although differences in QR by sponsorship type have not been evaluated in weight loss interventions.Objective:To evaluate the association of funding source and QR of long-term obesity randomized clinical trials (RCT).Methods:We analysed papers that reported …
Authors
Thomas O; Thabane L; Douketis J; Chu R; Westfall AO; Allison DB
Journal
International Journal of Obesity, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 1531–1536
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
10 2008
DOI
10.1038/ijo.2008.137
ISSN
0307-0565