Date Submitted: Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 10:03
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
Yes
Comments: E.g. A PhD student is funded through a collaboration between governmental and academic institutes, unrelated to a specific topic.
The funding is therefore also unrelated to any specific articles. Therefore not DIRECTLY related to the WORK that is submitted, but only related to the general appointment of the PhD student.
I personally would disclose such a financial relation for any article that is published by this PhD student, but this obligation is not clear to me from the Form.
To be precise: the term DIRECT is unclear to me. Is it DIRECTLY related to the ARTICLE in question (which the form now seems to imply), or more general DIRECTLY related to ANY WORK that the researcher does.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
No
Comments: I propose to include a section that explains explicitly what NOT to disclose.
For example, affiliations, if they are / aren't mentioned in the author affiliation section. Should we disclose?
Additionally, I think it would be helpful if the form specified what defines as Funding and what defines as Conflicts of Interest. Many journals ask for separate paragraphs defining Funding as well as COI, but the Disclosure Form seems to include both.
What sections of the Disclosure Form go into Funding and what sections into COI? It would be tremendously helpful to authors and it would make reporting way more consistent between authors if this was clarified.
Michael Diamond
University of Washington
Role(s): Other
Author who publishes in non-medical journals
Date Submitted: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 17:01
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
Yes
Comments: The American Geophysical Union has recently started using the old ICMJE form for author disclosures, in addition to funding disclosures within the Acknowledgements section of papers in AGU journals. Although I agree with the principles of transparency the form is striving for, I have major concerns about the phrasing of the original form, especially the "relevant conflicts of interest" line in Section 2. I do not consider federal grants to be conflicts of interest. As arguments have been made by some politicians and policymakers that, e.g., receiving EPA funding should be disqualifying "conflicts of interest" for scientists sitting on EPA advisory panels, I do believe we should be very careful and deliberate in our characterization of disclosure information. Based on the new form language, it appears that the ICMJE agrees. The amended form is much better in this regard.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
Yes
Lewis Sandy
UnitedHealth Group
Role(s):
An author who publishes work in medical journals
A health care professional
A reader of medical journals
Date Submitted: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 12:55
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
No
Comments: The ICMJE is on the right track in the sense that the proposed form emphasizes reporting relationships vs. asking authors to self-define vague terms. That said,
"topically related" is another potential can of worms. What is the boundary of what is "topically related"? What do you mean by "the broadly defined field addressed in the work?" The author has to self-define what the boundary of the work is, and then figure out whether their relationships are "topically related". So you are right back in the "relevance" problem.
As a journal reader, I would prefer an approach that asks authors for the data on their relationships, and then the journal summarizes the information as: no material relationships; potentially material relationships, and material relationships. Then let me the reader decide in the latter two cases whether the relationships are "conflicted" or not as it relates to what I'm reading.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
No
Comments: The proposed form (and the current one) (unlike many others) has no threshold, lower bound, or definition of "material". This seems outdated and inconsistent with many other disclosure forms (like the ones used by the Federal Govt).
It is a quaint notion, but charitable foundations have agendas too, so ALL funding sources and relationships should be disclosed.
All health care related employment and ownership relationships should be disclosed.
stephanie dean
ACOG
Role(s): A journal editor
Date Submitted: Monday, February 10, 2020 - 12:34
Comments: 1. Will this be a online-fillable form and do you plan to work with peer review system vendors to offer the option to incorporate the form into their systems, so responses can be exported to printers? As is, this form will be hard to reproduce in print without rekeying the information.
2. Is discerning between directly related vs. topically related that crucial? Related is related... Could we not just have one column and say
Is this relationship or activity RELATED to the work reported (either directly or topically)?
and then define what directly or topically mean below the table?
3.0 Can you roll some of the rows into others? eg, add "expert testimony" to this one: Payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers bureaus, manuscript writing, EXPERT TESTIMONY, or educational events
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
Yes
Carlos Quevedo Fonseca
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de las FAR
Role(s): A journal editor
Date Submitted: Monday, February 10, 2020 - 11:38
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
Yes
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
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