The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) is testing a new uniform disclosure form for reporting potential conflicts of interest among authors. The 14 journals that are ICMJE members, including the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine, have adopted the form. The American Academy of Family Physicians has said that its peer-reviewed journal American Family Physician will be adopting a slightly modified version of the ICMJE form.
The ICMJE introduced the new form in an October 2009 editorial. Authors of articles published in biomedical journals are asked to disclose information about their associations with commercial entities that provided support for the work described in the submitted manuscript; their associations with commercial entities that could be viewed as having an interest in the work; similar financial associations involving their spouse or partner or their children under 18 years old; and nonfinancial associations that may be relevant to the manuscript, which may be personal, professional, political, institutional or religious.
The ICMJE will test the new form until April 10, 2010. The form now posted on the ICMJE Web site includes instructions to help authors provide the information. A sample completed
Form is also available at www.icmje.org/sample_disclosure.pdf.
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