Authors’ reply to Smith and colleagues

Authors' reply to Huffman and colleagues.

1Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Ipswich, MA 01938, USA; 2Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; 4Therapeutics Initiative, Departments of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Medicine, University of Br...

Authors' reply to Lin and colleagues.

1Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; 2Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Orthopaedics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 3Department of Hand Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; 4Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 5...

Authors' reply to Rappuoli and colleagues, Black, and Glennie and colleagues.

The Authors’ Reply

Authors' reply to Smith, Forsyth, Coffey and Prendergast, and Soskolne.

Thank you for these responses. There seems to be some confusion about the extent of The BMJ’s new policy as set out in our recent editorial. The policy applies only to editorials and clinical educational articles designed to guide patient care and does not extend to other types of article published in The BMJ. Moreover it precludes only those authors with a relevant commercial interest—one that...