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Review
. 2020 Dec;10(2):0203107.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.0203107.

Reporting guidelines should be free to publish, read, and use

Patricia Logullo  1 , Jennifer A de Beyer  1 , Shona Kirtley  1 , Caroline Struthers  1 , Gary S Collins  1   2
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Reporting guidelines should be free to publish, read, and use

Patricia Logullo et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interest: All authors completed an ICMJE conflicts of interest form, available upon request from the corresponding author. All authors are involved, as part of the EQUATOR Network, in the development, update, implementation and dissemination of reporting guidelines.

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