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Our
Policies
STATEMENT OF TRANSMITTAL
All statements and opinions are the responsibility of the authors. With submission of the manuscript, a statement of transmittal must indicate that all authors have participated in the research, and have reviewed and agree with the content of the article.
COPYRIGHT
TRANSFER
Manuscripts
are received with the understanding that
they are submitted solely to Paediatrics & Child Health, and that none of the material
contained in the manuscript has been
published previously or is under
consideration for publication elsewhere,
with the exception of abstracts. The
publisher reserves copyright on all
published material, which then may not be
reproduced without the written permission
of the publisher. Upon providing an
author with page proofs prior to
publication, the author is asked to
transfer all rights, title, interest and
copyright ownership in said work to Pulsus.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
Paediatrics
& Child Health
and the Canadian Paediatric Society
require authors to disclose any and all
potential, perceived or actual conflicts of
interest
which include but are not limited to
specific financial interest, relationship
and affiliations relevant to the topic(s)
discussed in the submitted manuscript.
These could be employment/affiliation,
grants or funding, consultancies,
honoraria, stock ownership or option,
expert testimony, royalties, or patent
files, received or pending. This policy is
not intended to prevent authors with
financial or other interests from
publishing their work. However, it is the
journal’s responsibility to provide
reviewers and readers with full disclosure
to ensure scientific integrity.
Disclosures will be published with
accepted articles if deemed appropriate by
the editors. If no potential, perceived or actual
conflicts are disclosed, a statement to
that effect will be published.
ETHICS OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
If
human subjects are involved, the text must
indicate that all gave informed consent
and that the protocol was approved by the
institutional ethics review committee. We
do not publish animal research.
INFORMED
CONSENT
Patients
have a right to privacy that should not be
infringed without informed consent.
Identifying information, including
patients’ names, initials, or hospital
numbers, should not be published in
written descriptions, photographs, and
pedigrees unless the information is
essential for scientific purposes and the
patient (or parent or guardian) gives
written informed consent for publication.
Informed consent for this purpose requires
that a patient who is identifiable be
shown the manuscript to be published.
Identifying
details should be omitted if they are not
essential. Complete anonymity is difficult
to achieve, however, and informed consent
should be obtained if there is any doubt.
For example, masking the eye region in
photographs of patients is inadequate
protection of anonymity. If identifying
characteristics are altered to protect
anonymity, such as in pedigrees, authors
should provide assurance that alterations
do not distort scientific meaning and
editors should so note.
PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE PUBLISHED MATERIAL
Authors are responsible to obtain written permission from the publisher and the author to reproduce any previously published work.
Last
updated: September 2008
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