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Section | Time | Purpose | Template text | Notes on text and formatting |
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Declarations of interest | Following Funding Arbiter request | To state noncompliance and plan for updating/revising to become compliant | For reviews: "Clarification statement added from the Co-ordinating Editor on [date]: This review was found by the Cochrane Funding Arbiters, post-publication, to be noncompliant with the Cochrane conflict of interest policy, which includes the relevant parts of the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy. It will be updated by [date]. The update will have a majority of authors and lead author free of conflicts." For protocols: "Clarification statement added from the Co-ordinating Editor on [date]: This protocol was found by the Cochrane Funding Arbiters, post-publication, to be noncompliant with the Cochrane conflict of interest policy, which includes the relevant parts of the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy. When it is published as a review, a majority of authors and the lead author will be free of conflicts. The review is expected to be published by [date]." |
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What’s New/publishing event | Following Funding Arbiter request | To alert readers to statement of noncompliance plan for becoming compliant | For reviews: "Clarification message from the Co-ordinating Editor added to the Declarations of interest statement about the review’s compliance with the Cochrane conflict of interest policy, which includes the relevant parts of the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy." For protocols: "Clarification message from the Co-ordinating Editor added to the Declarations of interest statement about the protocol's compliance with the Cochrane conflict of interest policy, which includes the relevant parts of the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy." |
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Table 3. Template text to address compliance when completing a full update or revision, and What's New/publishing event (longer-term response)
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Declarations of interest | Publication of update/revision to become compliant | To declare new conflicts of interest and to clarify history of conflicts of interest | For reviews: "When originally published, the authors declared no conflict of interest [or – the above/below conflicts of interest]. From [date], the following conflicts of interest were declared. These conflicts applied during the period that the review was in preparation." |
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What's New/publishing event | Publication of update/revision to become compliant | To alert readers to changes in the declarations of interest | For reviews: "The authors' Declarations of interest have been updated to reflect the review's compliance with the Cochrane conflict of interest policy, which includes the relevant parts of the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy." |
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