Patient consent for publication and the health of the public
Article Abstract:
A multidisciplinary panel of experts including public health scientists should review the standards on patients' rights to privacy proposed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. These standards propose that all information in scientific papers that could identify the patients in the study be removed prior to publication. In one case, a paper was never published because one of the patients had gone to the media and the identifying information could not be removed. These standards could thereby influence journal publishers and could also hinder public health officials from alerting the public to health threats.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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Prevalence of Articles With Honorary Authors and Ghost Authors in Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals
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Many biomedical journals appear to accept manuscripts with honorary authors or ghost authors. An honorary author is one who did not make a substantial contribution to the research but is named as an author and a ghost author is one who did but is not named. A survey of 809 authors of articles published in 1996 in 3 peer-reviewed, large-circulation general medical journals and 3 peer-reviewed, smaller-circulation journals found that 19% of the articles had honorary authors, 11% had ghost authors and 2% had both. Review articles were more likely to have honorary authors and ghost authors.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1998
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Obtain informed consent before publishing information about patients
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Physician authors should obtain consent from patients if their paper contains information that would identify the patients in the study. This standard was proposed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors in 1995. Large epidemiological and clinical trials usually do not contain personal information but smaller trials and case reports might. If the patient does not consent to have personal information revealed, the information must be omitted from the paper if possible.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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