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Declarations of Interest

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The Cochrane Collaboration's general policy states "The performance of the review must be free of any real or perceived bias introduced by receipt of any benefit in cash or kind, any hospitality, or any subsidy derived from any source that may have or be perceived to have an interest in the outcome of the review."

Please answer the following six questions (all authors must answer)

  1. Have you in the past five years accepted the following from an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the results or conclusions of your Cochrane review:
  2. Have you in the past five years been employed by an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the results or the conclusions of your Cochrane review? YES/NO [delete as appropriate]
  3. Do you directly hold any stocks or shares (excluding mutual funds) in an organisation that may in any way gain or lose financially from the results or conclusions of your Cochrane review? YES/NO [delete as appropriate]
  4. Have you acted as an expert witness or paid advisor on the subject of your Cochrane review? YES/NO [delete as appropriate]
  5. Have you been involved in the design, conduct or publication of a potentially eligible study for your Cochrane review? YES/NO [delete as appropriate]
  6. Do you have any other competing financial or other interests? YES/NO [delete as appropriate]
    If YES, please specify:

If you have answered 'yes' to any of the questions above, you may have a competing interest which should be declared. Please draft a statement to publish with your review in the space below. This will be reviewed by the Lead author and Cochrane Review Group editorial base staff for inclusion in your review.

Authors should not be concerned about answering YES to any of the questions. YES answers do not indicate good or bad, but are simply something to declare on the form and consider for inclusion in the declarations section of the published review.

If you have answered 'no' to all of the questions above please enter "none known".

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