Disclosure of the Author’s Conflict of Interest: Why?

Abstract

The article describes not only the concept of conflict of interest, but also the validity of its disclosure in the texts of scientific medical articles. The issue of non-disclosure of conflict of interest is analyzed by the authors of the Russian journals. The examples that demonstrate the need to declare the conflict are given. A form for the disclosure of conflict of interest when submitting a manuscript for consideration is proposed.

Keywords

• conflict of interest
• medicine
• ethics of scientific publications