Editorial
The continuing dilemma of competing interests
Correspondence to:
Howard Bauchner, Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA and Editor-in-Chief, Archives of Disease in Childhood; howard.bauchner@bmc.org
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Virtually every peer reviewed journal, and certainly all BMJ Journals, including the Archives of Disease in Childhood, have statements that govern the declaration of competing interests. A competing interest exists "when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients’ welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain or personal rivalry)" (see http://resources.bmj.com/bmj/authors/checklists-forms/competing-interests). Most of these rules are clear: if an author has received a fee for consulting or speaking, or reimbursement for attending a symposium from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially as the result of a publication, the author must declare a competing interest. Similarly, authors should always declare the sources of funding for research. In many respects, these are easy rules – virtually no one would dispute that speaking fees or stock options are examples of conflicts and should be declared
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