Updated on: 10 February 2017

1. Financial interests

a) Received research funding: any grant, contract or gift, commissioned research, or fellowship from The Cochrane Collaboration or a related organisation (i.e. any organisation related to health care or medical research) to conduct research?
Yes - 1. Lower Austrian Health and Science Funds 2. WHO 3. US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 4. Austrian Ministry of Health

b) Had paid consultancies: any paid work, consulting fees (in cash or kind) from a related organisation?
Yes - 1. Oregon Health and Science University 2. World Health Organization

c) Received honoraria: one-time payments (in cash or kind) from a related organisation?
Yes - 1. Austrian Catholic Hospital Organization 2. Universite Paris Descartes

d) Served as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or held a position of management with a related organisation?
Yes - Associate Director of the RTI-UNiversity of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center

e) Possessed share-holdings, stock, stock options, equity with a related organisation (excludes mutual funds or similar arrangements where the individual has no control over the selection of the shares)?
No

f) Received personal gifts from a related organisation?
No

g) Had an outstanding loan with a related organisation?
No

h) Received royalty payments from a related organisation?
No

2. Do you have any other competing interests that could pose a conflict of interest that would reasonably appear to be related to the primary interest?
Yes - 1. Member of the highest advisory comittee of the Austrian Ministry of Health 2. Member of the GRADE working group 3. Member of several working groups of AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center program