It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
Yes
Comments: It is easy and complete, but maybe a bit too long with the comments part. It can be a lot of information in one time.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
Yes
Comments: "Participation on a Data Safety Monitoring Board, Advisory Board, or Guideline Panel" is very interesting.
Derrick Moore
American Hospital Dubai
Role(s):
A health care professional
A reader of medical journals
Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 06:30
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
Yes
Comments: It should include PAST associations too. There are physicians who moves from one pharma to another, AND BACK AGAIN, and don't list the relationship they had with one 3 years again, which they will have with the same company next year.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
No
Comments: See above
Marion Rowland
University College Dublin
Role(s):
An author who publishes work in medical journals
A health care professional
A patient
A reader of medical journals
Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 06:27
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
Yes
Comments: I suggest that the question of grants/contracts from should have an individual Yes/No for each funding source as well as the name of the funding body. The approximate monetary value (<25000, <50000, ect) would be a useful disclosure to understand where the bulk of funding is coming from for a particular research project. This would hopefully identify the contribution/influence of soft industry funding to government awards.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
Yes
Comments: 1.Improving disclosures and reducing bias in reviewing could be improved if the reviewer was unaware of who or where the work was from- remove all names, credentials and conflict of interest forms from the first round of peer reviews
2.It would also be beneficial if peer reviewers made similar disclosures of their real and/or perceived conflicts of interest in the field. If the peer reviewers are active/publishing in the field this information should be available from their publications.
3 Reviewers comments should no longer be anonymous in the interest of transparency.
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Role(s): An author who publishes work in medical journals
Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 04:50
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
No
Comments: If the proposal would only ask for disclosures of financial ties, and not ask also for personal ties I would not have an issue with this revision of the guidelines. But the proposal is not clear about these “personal relationships and activities”. So-called non-financial conflicts of interest seem to me to infringe on my right to have a personal life, with private political or religious beliefs and related activities. A hypothetical case illustrates the issues: if an author who is an active but ‘hidden’ homosexual submits a paper to a journal on parental homosexuality or HIV-infection affecting child health and development: should he or she ‘admit’ his or her homosexuality on the Disclosure Form —even though he or she is from a country in which such a personal orientation is forbidden by law (possibly sentenced with a death penalty)? Important also is the problem of not knowing what exactly influential belief systems are in the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge, especially when we have to assume -on empirical grounds—that implicit biases might influence our behavior and that at the same time we are unable to report on them.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
No
Comments: Scientific authors should not allow to be screened for such personal beliefs or the absence thereof during the process of evaluating their scientific work as publishable or in the process to be published. This is at the core of academic freedom and more broadly freedom of speech or freedom to be silent about personal beliefs. Newton believed in astrology, Einstein was a pacifist during war-time, Heidegger a Nazi, Sartre a Maoist, Darwin has been accused of being an atheist, Watson of being a sexist: whatever we feel about such beliefs, as scientists (authors, reviewers, editors) we should evaluate their work as part of World 3 in the sense of Karl Popper, without ties to the author: the data reported in the text are the only important object of scrutiny. Otherwise there is a risk of a new kind of McCarthyism of which Linus Pauling like many other scientists did suffer in the fifties, or closer to modern times: a risk of Erdogan-type of persecution experienced by our scientific colleagues in Turkey, dismissed without due process from their tenured positions because of their political ideas. The EMCJE Disclosure Form should therefore only ask for financial conflicts of interest.
Pr. Peter Bramlage
Institute for Pharmacology and Preventive Medicine
Role(s):
An author who publishes work in medical journals
A health care professional
A reader of medical journals
Date Submitted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 04:19
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
No
Comments: It is quite complex and although most may apply in certain situations, it is just too long. It will result in quite complex disclosure lines in the paper.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
No
Comments: - There are too few lines for people with multiple activities, such as Board Meetings with >3 companies
- yes/no twice should be solved by the form. If it is yes for "directly related" it should flip to no for "topically related"
- Comments are rarely needed
- consider establishing a website where authors can maintain their disclosure overall. When writing a two digit number of papers each year, these questionnaires become really annoying.
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The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
It is easy to understand what the ICMJE Disclosure Form is asking to be disclosed.
The information collected by the ICMJE Disclosure Form is appropriate.
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