Managing conflicts of interest in the development of health guidelines

Gregory Traversy¹, Lianne Barnieh², Elie A Akl²+14

• ¹Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control (Traversy, Rodin), Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Medicine, University of Calgary (Barnieh, Tonelli), Calgary, Alta.; Department of Internal Medicine (Akl), American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Family Medicine (Allan), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; School of Epidemiology and Public Health (Brouwers), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (Ganache), Montréal, Que.; Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing (Grundy), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (Guyatt, Schünemann), McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ont.; CMAJ (Kelsall), Ottawa, Ont.; National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (Leng), London, UK; Department of Family Medicine (Moore), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud) and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Straus), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Lady Davis Institute and Department of Psychiatry (Thombs), Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montréal, Que.; Institut für Evidence in Medicine (Schünemann), Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany gregory.traversy@canada.ca.+1