nejm-ethics
Use to confirm clinical ethics and research-integrity requirements for an NEJM submission — IRB/ethics-committee approval and informed consent per the Declaration of Helsinki, ICMJE conflict-of-interest disclosures and authorship criteria, the role-of-the-funding-source statement, and the ICMJE data-sharing statement.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nejm-ethics --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Clinical Ethics & Integrity (nejm-ethics) ## When to trigger - The Methods do not state IRB/ethics approval or how informed consent was obtained. - ICMJE disclosure forms are not collected for every author. - There is no data-sharing statement (required by ICMJE for clinical trials). - Authorship, contributions, or the role of the funder are unstated or unclear. ## Human-subjects ethics - [ ] **IRB / ethics committee approval** — named committee(s) and that approval was obtained before enrollment. - [ ] **Informed consent** — obtained from participants (or legal surrogates); describe any waiver and its basis. - [ ] **Declaration of Helsinki** — state the trial was conducted in accordance with it (and GCP for trials). - [ ] **Special populations** — additional protections for children, incapacitated adults, emergency-consent settings. ## ICMJE conflict-of-interest disclosures - Every author completes the **ICMJE disclosure form**; financial and non-financial conflicts are reported. - The manuscript carries a **disclosure / competing-interests statement**; "ICMJE disclosure forms are available with the full text" is the typical NEJM phrasing. - Disclose relationships even if the au
- When to trigger
- Human-subjects ethics
- ICMJE conflict-of-interest disclosures
- Authorship and contributions (ICMJE criteria)
- Role of the funding source
- Data-sharing statement (ICMJE)
- Patient privacy and other integrity items
- Statement placement map (draft each as a named block)
- Worked micro-example — data-sharing statement (before → after)
- Output format
- Anti-patterns
What does the nejm-ethics skill do?
Use to confirm clinical ethics and research-integrity requirements for an NEJM submission — IRB/ethics-committee approval and informed consent per the Declaration of Helsinki, ICMJE conflict-of-interest disclosures and authorship criteria, the role-of-the-funding-source statement, and the ICMJE data-sharing statement.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nejm-ethics --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.