Updated on: 16 March 2022

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 - Research funding: Network of University Medicine (Nationales Forschungsnetzwerk der Universitaetsmedizin) by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)), grant number 01KX2021

b) Had paid consultancies: any paid work, consulting fees (in cash or kind) from a related organisation?
Yes - - Teaching fees: Cochrane Germany, Kassenaerztliche Vereinigung Nordrhein (KVNO), Aerztekammer Nordrhein (AEKNO), Aerztekammer RLP, S??chsische Aerztekammer - Search support fees: European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC); European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID); Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI) - Editorial fees: BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine Journal (Associate Editor)

c) Received honoraria: one-time payments (in cash or kind) from a related organisation?
No

d) Served as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or held a position of management with a related organisation?
No

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?
No