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.