PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Miriam Wiersma
AU  - Ian Kerridge
AU  - Wendy Lipworth
TI  - Dangers of neglecting non-financial conflicts of interest in health and medicine
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2017-104530
DP  - 2018 May 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 319--322
VI  - 44
IP  - 5
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/44/5/319.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/44/5/319.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2018 May 01; 44
AB  - Non-financial interests, and the conflicts of interest that may result from them, are frequently overlooked in biomedicine. This is partly due to the complex and varied nature of these interests, and the limited evidence available regarding their prevalence and impact on biomedical research and clinical practice. We suggest that there are no meaningful conceptual distinctions, and few practical differences, between financial and non-financial conflicts of interest, and accordingly, that both require careful consideration. Further, a better understanding of the complexities of non-financial conflicts of interest, and their entanglement with financial conflicts of interest, may assist in the development of a more sophisticated approach to all forms of conflicts of interest.