Informed Consent

The journal agrees with associations interested in maintaining the quality of a medical journal, including the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). AMHR takes exception to unethical practices as they relate to duplicate publications, falsification of data, fabrication of data, plagiarism, gift authorship, not obtaining written informed consent from patients, not obtaining permission from the Ethical Committee before studies involving humans are conducted, deliberate application of inappropriate statistical techniques to enhance the significance of research, deliberate neglect of negative findings, deviating from the research protocol approved by the Institutional Ethical Committee, not declaring conflicts of interest when they exist, to mention just a few.