AAD guidelines’ conflict-of-interest policies discussed in pro-con debate

They reported an adjusted analysis of the percentage of authors with relevant conflicts for each of the guidelines examined in the initial study. The percentages shrank to zero, 40%, and 43% of the authors with relevant conflicts, percentages that fell within the AAD’s ceiling for an acceptable percentage of work group members with conflicts.

The discussion on this topic was presented during a forum on dermatoethics at the meeting, structured as a debate in which presenters are assigned an ethical argument or point-of-view to discuss and defend. The position taken by the speaker need not (and often does not) correspond to the speaker’s personal views.

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