PLoS medicine
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Jean-Louis Vincent outlines why combinations of biomarkers will be central to the future of sepsis diagnosis.
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Financial relationships between organizations that produce clinical practice guidelines and biomedical companies are vulnerable to conflicts of interest. We sought to determine whether organizations that produce clinical practice guidelines have financial relationships with biomedical companies and whether there are associations between organizations' conflict of interest policies and recommendations and disclosures provided in guidelines. ⋯ Financial relationships between organizations that produce clinical practice guidelines and biomedical companies are common and infrequently disclosed in guidelines. Our study highlights the need for an effective policy to manage organizational conflicts of interest and disclosure of financial relationships.
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001990.].