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Statement: Conflict of Interest
- International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
- Members of the committee are Marcia Angell (The New England Journal of Medicine), Linda Hawes Clever (Western Journal of Medicine), Lois Ann Colaianni (Index Medicus), Robert Fletcher and Suzanne Fletcher (Annals of Internal Medicine), Jill Forrest (Medical Journal of Australia), Robin Fox (The Lancet), Jerome Kassirer (The New England Journal of Medicine), Richard Glass and George Lundberg (Journal of the American Medical Association), Magne Nylenna (Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening), Richard Robinson (The New Zealand Medical Journal), Richard Smith (British Medical Journal), Bruce Squires (Canadian Medical Association Journal), Laurel Thomas (Medical Journal of Australia), and Patricia Woolf (Princeton University). Please address comments to Kathleen Case (ICMJE Secretariat; Annals of Internal Medicine).
During its most recent meeting, 14-15 January 1993 in London, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors approved the following statement on conflict of interest in peer review and publication in medical journals.
Conflict of interest for a given manuscript exists when a participant in the peer review and publication processauthor, reviewer, and editorhas ties to activities that could inappropriately influence his or her judgment, regardless of whether judgment is, in fact, affected. Financial relationships with industry (for example, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, expert testimony), either directly or through immediate family, are usually …
