Comments on the proposed ICMJE Disclosure Form

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  • Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
    Universidade Vila Velha
    Role(s):
    • An author who publishes work in medical journals
    • A health care professional
    • A patient
    • A reader of medical journals
    • A journal editor
    Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 12:54

    It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
    • Yes
    Comments: ICMJE might consider a process for endorsing translated forms, facilitating uptake by journals publishing in other languages.

    The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
    • Yes
    Comments: I'd like to see somewhere a rationale for the 36-month period. Not that I'm opposing; any length of time would be arbitrary and might be the best for some cases.

  • Al Musella
    Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research & Information, Inc
    Role(s): Other
      • Funder of research
    Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 11:34

    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.
    • No
    Comments: I think that there should be some minimum threshold amount of money involved before something has to be reported. For example, a recent Medicare advisory board removed all participants who reported $25 or more received in thier lifetime from the drug company under investigation. Just attending an educational event where food is served disqualified half of the experts - the 1/2 who had interest in the treatment leaving people who had no knowledge of the product. Perhaps create a threshold of $1,000 - anything less than that does not need to be disclosed. Or perhaps a % of annual income. For a researcher making $50,000 a year, a $1,000 gift may be significant. For one making $500,000 a year, the $1,000 gift is meaningless.

  • John Ghertner
    Role(s):
    • A health care professional
    • A reader of medical journals
    Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 10:53

    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.
    • Yes
    Comments: Full disclosure should have been instituted decades ago. Full disclosure should mean full disclosure; if this form does not capture everything then it is not acceptable. Therefore, there should be a last column for every other relationship not listed above. Clearly, future publications will refer to online conflicts sections so the length is irrelevant as long as the author a. Attests to the validity of the document, b. Lists the relevant relationship above the rest, and c. Extremely harsh penalties ensue for failure including the banning of publication of future work and loss of licensure for fraud.

  • Paul Heidenreich
    Stanford University/VA Palo Alto HCS
    Role(s):
    • An author who publishes work in medical journals
    • A health care professional
    • A patient
    • A reader of medical journals
    • A journal editor
    Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 10:39

    It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
    • No
    Comments: More guidance on the entity with whom you have the relationship would be helpful. Is there any limit on the entity with whom one has the relationship? If correct, you should make it clear that this includes any entity (including your own Department/employer) with whom you have a financial transaction (research or otherwise) . If someone is a consultant on someone else's government grant will this be listed under the consultant section?

    The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
    • No
    Comments: Public/government funding should be dropped. Employment is more important and more likely to represent a conflict (e.g studies of outcome at hospitals). I believe the editors should do more to guide the reader into what is a major conflict, minor conflict and no conflict. Otherwise the presence of any information may be assumed to bias the publication. Most readers will not understand that authors are being asked to list non-relevant information. Ultimately, we should transition to a public website where anyone wishing to publish a manuscript must keep up to date all sources of health or science related personal income and grant/contract income regardless of relevance.

  • Michelle Colder Carras
    Role(s): An author who publishes work in medical journals
    Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 10:20

    It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
    • No
    Comments: Please explain "Name of the relationship or activity".

    The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
    • Yes
    Comments: I also feel that monetary amounts are important, and I would like clarification on smaller benefits like lunch or dinner from an industry sponsor. Perhaps these could be aligned with government requirements for conflict of interest reporting. One thing that would be good for many of us is an option for disclosing intellectual conflict of interest. I always disclose the fact that I play video games in my papers/presentations about the benefits and problems of video gaming. This is relevant to many other areas.

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