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Which types of articles need Informed Consent?
The below table describes the requirement of informed consent in different types of manuscripts.
| Manuscript Type |
Patient Informed Consent |
| Research Articles |
|
- Interventional (on Human participants)
|
required |
- Interventional (on Animal participants)
|
- |
|
|
required/optional ** |
- Real retrospective studies
|
optional |
|
|
required *** |
Table notes:
- *: Veterinary clinical cases: For studies using client-owned animals, a high standard (best practice) of veterinary care and an informed client consent statement should be included in the Materials and Methods section.
- *: Animal Studies: The ethical review committee approval, and the international, national, and/or institutional guidelines followed regarding the animal's welfare are strongly required in these types of studies.
- **: In vitro studies on human or animal tissues are obliged to show an "ethical approval code".
- ***: Case reports are not obliged to show the “Ethical Approval Code”. But it is strongly recommended to obtain written and signed informed consent from patients/ guardians for publishing the case report.
Notes:
- Submitting informed consent during submission is required for all research on human subjects.
- Informed consent should be written in the "Methods" section of the manuscript.
- For studies using live animals or human subjects, the author should also include a statement that all experiments were performed in compliance with the relevant laws and institutional guidelines, and also should state the institutional committee(s) that has approved the experiments.
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