Table 3. Financial conflicts of interest among authors of guidelines on the use of drugs and on other subjects.

	Authors with no financial conflicts of interest (AWMF form, questions 1 to 5) n = 911	Authors with one or more financial conflict of interest (AWMF form, questions 1 to 5) n = 925	Odds ratio and 95% confidence interval
Guidelines on the use of drugs (n = 92; authors: n = 663)	266 (40%)	397 (60%)	1.82 (1.21 to 2.75)
Guidelines on other subjects (n = 121; authors: n = 1173)	645 (55%)	528 (45%)

AWMF, Association of Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften)