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TACIT is publicly available for pre-publication feedback (as of 2 September 2025)

An unpublished version of TACIT is now publicly available here. We encourage systematic reviewers to use the tool, and we would be grateful for any type of feedback to: alundh@health.sdu.dk. Based on the feedback, we will revise the tool and submit a manuscript for publication in early 2026.

TACIT (Tool for Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Trials) is a tool that provides systematic reviewers with a framework for addressing conflicts of interest in trials included in Cochrane Reviews and other systematic reviews.

The tool facilitates a systematic and transparent judgement of "notable concern" about conflicts of interest in relation to funders and researchers involved in randomised clinical trials included in systematic reviews. TACIT also addresses the quality of the information that the conflicts of interest judgement was based on.