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- EPMD requests that authors submit their declarations of interest forms via Editorial Manager. On submission of the forms, EPMD assesses whether the author team is in compliance with the relevant Conflict of Interest (CoI) Policy for Cochrane Library Content.
- If the author team is not in compliance, EPMD rejects the proposal and emails the authors informing them of the rejection (copying in the CRG editors).
- If the author team is in compliance, EPMD shares PDFs of the authors’ declarations of interest forms with the CRG editors via the discussion. EPMD closes the proposal on the central Editorial Manager site, and informs the authors by email (copying in the CRG editors), that the CRG will contact them about their proposal.
- Once the CRG receives the email from EPMD to authors, the CRG either:
- invites the authors to submit a full Review Proposal Form (RPF) to their network Editorial Manager site and assesses the RPF as usual; or
- generates and accepts the proposal without an RPF on their network Editorial Manager site.
- Accepting the proposal generates a protocol in RevMan, 'registered' with the CRG. The CRG then invites the authors to submit the protocol to their network Editorial Manager site.
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