As mentioned, the acknowledgement of a patient-relevant medical benefit by the GBA is crucial.
Furthermore, not only authors, but reviewers and editors, and all editorial secretariat members, as well as anyone mentioned in Acknowledgement sections, should be given education on the significance of COI and on how to make appropriate, transparent statements.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests, other than mentioned under Acknowledgements.
The authors declares that the grant, scholarship and/or funding mentioned in "Acknowledgements" do not lead to any competing interests.
The company has been participating in Korean Healthcare Technology R&D Project mentioned in acknowledgements as a collaborative partner for developing cosmetic ingredients and designs.
Clones of the in situ markers were obtained from various labs (mentioned in the Acknowledgement section) and digoxigenin-labeled antisense RNA probes were generated with T7 or T3 RNA polymerases (Roche) according to the orientation of cDNA inserts.
The study has been supported by grants from five institutions, all mentioned in the acknowledgement section.
Some members in the National Research Project Team for CKDu mentioned in the acknowledgement section of the paper participated in this debate.
The datasets are detailed in Table 1 and the different institutions that released the data are mentioned in the acknowledgement section.
Notifications are great for keeping you in the loop, as mentioned, and for acknowledgements, but they could benefit greatly from expanded response powers.
Neither the authors nor the persons mentioned in the acknowledgements received financial compensation for this study.
