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Authorship
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Funding: This study was funded by X (grant number X).
Conflict
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in Company Y. Author C is a member of committee Z.
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Statement of Human and Animal Rights
When
reporting studies that involve human participants, authors should
include a statement that the studies have been approved by the
appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee and
have been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid
down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or
comparable ethical standards.
If
doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the
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independent ethics committee or institutional review board explicitly
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The following statements should be included in the text before the References section:
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Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical
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For retrospective studies, please add the following sentence:
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Individual participants in studies e.g. have the right to decide what
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Identifying details (names, dates of birth, identity numbers and other
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difficult to achieve in some cases, and informed consent should be
obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in
photographs of participants is inadequate protection of anonymity. If
identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in
genetic profiles, authors should provide assurance that alterations do
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The following statement should be included:
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