Statement of Human and Animal Rights and Informed Consent
for Chinese General Practice
Statement of Human and Animal Rights
Authors are required to submit a human and animal rights statement at the time of manuscript submission, depending on the nature of the study, stating that the trial/experiment adheres to legally binding ethical standards. Authors should check whether the following statement applies to their research project.
- - For animal experiments, authors must declare that the research was conducted in accordance with the Principles of Laboratory Animal Care (NIH Publication No. 85-23, 1985 Revision). In addition, the authors are required to declare the specific legal provisions under which the experiments were conducted.
-- For human studies, authors must declare that permission was obtained from the relevant ethics committee and that the experiments were conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines established in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. Authors must declare that the experiments documented in the submitted manuscript were conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines mentioned above.
Informed Consent Statement
The patient's privacy must not be violated. Identifying information in the trial, including the patient's name, initials and hospital name, must not be disclosed in text, images or genealogy unless it is important for scientific purposes and is supported by written evidence of informed consent from the patient (parent or guardian of the child). Patients should read the contents of the published manuscript before signing the certificate of informed consent. Authors should indicate the individuals who provided writing assistance to the patient and the source of funding for this research. Identifying information should be omitted if not necessary to disclose.
Clinical Trial Registration
Articles involving Clinical trials must include the Universal Trial Number (UTN) obtained from one of the Primary Registries in the WHO Registry Network. The UTN and registration institute shall be included in the abstract or the main body of the full text.
Reporting Guidelines
Authors are required to follow medical reporting guidelines because they help authors describe the study in enough detail for it to be evaluated by editors, reviewers, readers, and other researchers evaluating the medical literature. Reporting guidelines have been developed for different study designs. For details, please refer to the webpage of “International Reporting Guidelines” of the Chinese website.