title: Industry sponsorship and positive outcome in vascular and endovascular randomised trials.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of General Surgery, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Haslingden Rd, Blackburn, UK.|a Shahab Hajibandeh and Shahin Hajibandeh equally contributed to this paper and joined first authorship is proposed.
authors.forename: Shahab
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hajibandeh
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of General Surgery, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Haslingden Rd, Blackburn, UK.|a Shahab Hajibandeh and Shahin Hajibandeh equally contributed to this paper and joined first authorship is proposed.
authors.forename: Shahin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hajibandeh
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Heraklion, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
authors.forename: Stavros A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Antoniou
authors.affiliation: 3 Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, The Royal Oldham Hospital, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: George A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Antoniou
authors.affiliation: 4 Department of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Torella
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D015706:Bibliometrics; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000191:economics* / Q000941:ethics; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000191:economics* / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000191:economics* / Q000941:ethics; D012107:Research Design; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000941:ethics; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000191:economics* / Q000941:ethics