BMJ 2006;332:135 (21 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7534.135-a
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Surgery journal bans authors who hide conflicts of interest
Susan Mayor
London
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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has announced that it will ban authors who deliberately fail to disclose any conflicts of interests from publishing again in the journal for at least a year, in an effort to emphasise how important it considers full disclosure.
The journal's editor, Andrew Wechsler, who is also chairman of the department of cardiothoracic surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States, has decided that any authors who are found to have failed to disclose conflicts of interests will be barred from publishing in the journal for one to two years, depending on the seriousness of the failure.
The journal announced the measure after finding that authors of two papers published last year had failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest. In one case, it found that Dr Randall Wolf, a surgeon at the University of Cincinnati, had not fully disclosed the
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