About the Authors
- Druin Burch
- the PLOS Medicine Editors
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* E-mail: medicine_editors@plos.org
Competing Interests
The authors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salaries are not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: DB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LC RM LP AR PS MW DB. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: LC RM LP AR PS MW DB. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: LC RM LP AR PS MW DB.