Therefore, the editors proposed that we would ask the author to have the patient (or patient’s parents) sign our consent-to-publication form, and then include in the paper a statement that they had done so, but that we stop asking authors to send us copies of these forms and simply rely on the authors’ word instead. Is this acceptable?
建议:
论坛同意这是一个奇怪的案例,并提出了与HIPAA法律有关的问题。有人认为,没有必要建立期刊以了解报告报告的患者的身份。提交人可以被要求声明他们遵循正确的程序并从患者获得同意。但是,目录无需看待同意书,因此无需揭示患者的身份。如果未来出现问题,期刊将有一个合理的防御,因为Onus将在作者上获得同意。编辑可以请求他们获得同意的作者签署的断言。Although the journal’s own consent form can be used, the Forum noted that it would be very useful to have a generic consent form so that patients need only sign a form once in the event that the paper is rejected by one journal and submitted to another journal. The Forum agreed that the editor’s proposed course of action is acceptable.
该期刊撰写给作者,要求澄清个人同意疗程,以及该研究的道德批准。The authors replied to say that patients did give written consent, but no ethical approval was required or given because the course of these patients’ treatment was not carried out as a research study but instead as a course of off-label therapy, which was subsequently written up into a research paper. No further action was taken.