In conjunction with an editorial on competing interests, we conducted two online questionnaires regarding the possibility of extending our policies further.

The final results, with 141 people responding, were:

1. Should the BMJ require authors and reviewers to declare
non-financial as well as financial competing interests?

Yes	88%
No	11%

2. Should the BMJ ask authors and reviewers to declare
the sums of money involved in financial competing interests?

Yes	69%
No	30%

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