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Foster, Cate http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6236-5580
Wager, Elizabeth http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4202-7813
Marchington, Jackie http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8482-3028
Patel, Mina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9357-1707
Banner, Steve http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7852-9284
Kennard, Nina C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8480-7033
Panayi, Antonia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-3705
Stacey, Rianne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6516-3172
Article History
Received: 27 July 2018
Accepted: 26 April 2019
First Online: 5 June 2019
Authors’ information
: Cate Foster, Jackie Marchington, Steve Banner and Nina C Kennard work for medical communication agencies that provide professional medical writing or editing services to not-for-profit and for-profit clients.Elizabeth Wager is self-employed and provides training, consultancy and editing services on medical publishing and publication ethics for pharmaceutical companies, medical communication agencies, publishers, universities and academic societies.Mina Patel and Antonia Panayi work in Global Medical Affairs functions within the pharmaceutical industry.Rianne Stacey worked for a medical communication agency (see above) during the majority of the time the work was done and now works at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Oxford, UK, in a Global Medical Affairs function within the pharmaceutical industry.The content and opinions expressed in the article are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect the policies or practices of their employers.
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