As authors of case reports know, CMAJ requires written consent from pa-tients whose
medical history is described in our pages. In a recent issue we goofed and published not …

THE STATEMENT" Protection of Patients' Rights to Privacy," which was agreed on by the
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and published in theBMJin …

Journal of Medical Case Reports was launched with the aim of increasing the publication of
case reports in the medical literature, because accurate reports of clinical experience are an …

EDrrOR,-The failure of the first class postal service and the Department of Health's" fax
cascade" to prevent another drug scare (the recent scare over the safety of third generation …

Dr. Hoeldtke's letter is a thoughtful response to our editorial on Privacy and Publication. His
view about the scientific value of presenting the details in case reports is shared by many …

Methods and results We conducted a postal survey in September 1990 among medical
editors of 116 medical journals from different geographic areas and specialties in which the …

Two articles 1, 2 in the Controversies section of this issue of THE JOURNAL explore the
important issue of obtaining informed consent for publication when a scientific article …

AUTHORS OF SCIENTIFIC articles have an obligation to obtain informed consent of patients
before the publication of data by which those patients can be identified. The purpose of this …

Last week three doctors appeared before the General Medical Council, the body that
regulates British doctors, charged with serious professional misconduct because they had …

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