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Age and Ageing 2007 36(5):599-600; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm101
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society.

Standards in dementia care

SIR—I read with interest the book review by D. Jolley [1] about ‘Standards in Dementia Care’ edited by Alistair Burns in the March issue. The publication was done by the ‘European Dementia Consensus Network’ (EDCON) [2] and was sponsored by the Madariaga European Foundation [3] and co-sponsored by Janssen–Cilag [2], a manufacturer of an anti-dementia drug. In the book review and also on the websites there is no information about the role of sponsoring and no declarations of possible conflicts of interest. While pharmaceutical sponsorship is widespread and influences reported study outcome [4, 5] and the content of medical journals in general [6, 7], I want to address the topic that even the relationships of researchers and physicians in expert boards have to be clarified [8–10]. Without a transparent politic of conflicts of interest, the reader may not recognise the possible influence of industrial sponsors.

Manfred Gogol

Klinik fuer Geriatrie, Krankenhaus Lindenbrunn, Lindenbrunn 1, D-31863 Coppenbruegge, Germany

Tel: 0049-5163-782-295; Fax: 0049-5163-782-287 Email: gogol{at}krankenhaus-lindenbrunn.de

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  1. Jolley D. Standards in dementia care. Book review. Age Ageing (2007) 36:236–7.[Free Full Text]
  2. EDCON. http://www.madariaga.org/template_subpage.asp?pag_id=15&spa_id=34&lng_iso=EN (Access 08.04.2007).
  3. Madariaga European Foundation. http://www.madariaga.org/ (Access 08.04.2007).
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