Public comment period · §3
Draft conflicts-of-interest policy — disposition
The disposition of every submission and the amendments that resulted.
§3Disposition and amendments
§3.1Disposition table
Table 1. Every submission with its disposition. Each row links to the submission in full.
| Reference | Respondent | Point raised | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/009 | Dr Rukayat Zaleski-Mbeki | The Institute publishes no telephone number and no messaging channel | Noted, no amendment |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/010 | Rosalind Petrossian | An industry submission should be identifiable without reading the declared interest | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/005 | Dr Ludmila Tollemache | Recusal should follow automatically from any declared financial interest | Not accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/003 | Quentin Gwynne-Sarpong industry | The document should not describe uses outside the approved indication | Not accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/004 | Dr Wolfram Kaltenbach-Mensah | Declared interests should appear on the document rather than on a separate page | Noted, no amendment |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/006 | Dr Jolyon Grünbaum-Sowande | The document is unreadable without specialist training | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/011 | Dr Hyacinth Oyelaran-Steen | The search date is not on the face of the document | Accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/007 | Dr Dmitri Nordhagen | The secretariat answers submissions and is not itself named | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/001 | Dr Ottoline Fitzgerald-Nwosu | The document should state what a reader ought to do | Not accepted |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/012 | Dr Amara Vandergraaf | Point estimates are given without an interval | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/008 | Dr Liesbeth Quenneville | A party criticised in an assessment should have a right of reply | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/002 | Dr Zebedee Zaleski-Mbeki | The terms on which the documents may be reused are not stated | Accepted |
| 12 submissions in total. | |||
§3.2Summary by disposition
Table 2. Counts by disposition, with the meaning of each.
| Disposition | Count | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Accepted | 3 | The submission is accepted and the draft is amended as proposed. The amendment is recorded in the amendment log of the document it changed and is traceable to the numbered submission. |
| Accepted in part | 4 | Part of the submission is accepted and part is not. The secretariat response states which part is which and on what ground the remainder was declined. |
| Noted, no amendment | 2 | The submission raises a point the Institute accepts but that does not require a change to the draft, most often because the draft already states it elsewhere. The location is given in the response. |
| Not accepted | 3 | The submission is not accepted. The secretariat response gives the reason. A submission that is not accepted remains published in full; the Institute does not remove a submission because it disagrees with it. |
§3.3Resulting amendments
- An industry submission should be identifiable without reading the declared interest — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/010. A submission made on behalf of a company is now identified as an industry submission on its face, at the head of the submission and in the disposition table, in addition to the declared interest published in full beneath it.
- The document is unreadable without specialist training — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/006. Every document now opens with a plain-language summary of not more than 150 words, placed above the technical abstract and carrying the same certainty language, so that the two cannot diverge.
- The search date is not on the face of the document — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/011. The search date is now printed adjacent to every certainty rating and is carried in the document metadata, so that the interval between the search and the reading is visible without reference to the methods section.
- The secretariat answers submissions and is not itself named — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/007. Every comment period now names the secretariat members responsible for it, with their declared interests, in the consultation front matter, so that the responses can be read against the interests of the people who wrote them.
- Point estimates are given without an interval — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/012. Every estimate now carries its interval where the source reported one, and where it did not, the estimate is annotated as reported without an interval rather than left to appear as a precise figure.
- A party criticised in an assessment should have a right of reply — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/008. A standing correction route is now published, corrections of fact are assessed and applied at any time with the change recorded in the amendment log, and a submission of substance received outside a window is held and published in the next comment period on…
- The terms on which the documents may be reused are not stated — arising from DRAFT-CONFLICTS-PO/002. The reuse terms are now stated explicitly on the legal page and in the document footer, permitting quotation and reproduction with attribution and the document version, and requiring that any reproduction carry the certainty rating that accompanied the quoted…
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