When the negotiation protocol fails to sort out the conflict automatically, the declaration of conflict for off-line resolution and search for neutral body, which is in this study referred as the LEA.
There were also a number of methodological issues in many of reviews that we appraised, including the lack of duplicate assessment of study eligibility, inclusion of studies other than RCTs, lack of publication bias assessment, lack of declaration of conflict of interest, and inappropriate use of meta-analysis [ 24, 25].
Finally, authors' declaration of conflicts of interest (present, absent) and affiliations (industry, other) were recorded.
For other potential sources of bias, we judged as unclear or high risk of bias in 18 studies (e.g. declarations of potential conflicts of interest or funding support were frequently unreported, or the report did not clearly state to what extent any support might have posed a risk of bias) [ 33, 36, 41- 47, 47, 50, 51, 53, 55],[ 58, 61, 62, 68- 71, 74].
As Congress understood even in those fearful first days after Sept. 11, this does not justify an open-ended declaration of armed conflict against all terrorist groups.
Each member of the expert group completed a declaration of potential conflict of interests.
A DTC where members have shared evaluation principles and priorities of value of drugs is important as well as transparent declaration of potential conflict of interests for all involved experts according to a guideline [ 10].
Third, the absence of guidelines requiring a declaration of any conflict of interest between corporations and the evidence they cite enable tobacco industry-funded/linked work to be cited by TTCs in such a way that any link is undeclared, implying independence.
