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“A Little ELF, Please?” The Electronic Long-Form COI Disclosure Statement (ELFCOI)

Name / volume / issue

67126

Page number

1-2

Primary author

Lisa Kearns & Arthur Caplan

Tag(s): Journal article

Abstract

There is a little discussed problem in academic publishing: the scant amount of information provided by disclosures of conflict that accompany journal articles. These brief lists of organizations with which authors have financial relationships convey frustratingly little detail about the nature of the relationships. Current disclosure practices fail to provide the transparency about an author’s relationships that they are intended to.

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