The material parts of the agreement under which the defendants combined consist of a preamble, called 'Declaration of Purpose,' the relevant part of which, together with articles 2, 3, and 7, are set out in the margin.
Thereafter, following the first version of the Declaration of Helsinki, other relevant declarations on research ethics have confirmed the acceptability of surrogate or proxy consent thus sanctioning the ethical acceptability of participation of incompetent adults in research, provided that more protections be offered to these subjects.
This study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and relevant international regulations, and approved by the Ethics Committee of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Approval ID: SWYX2008010).
The study was approved by the independent ethics committee at each participating centre (see Additional file 1: Table S1) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and relevant International Conference on Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice guidelines.
This study has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and with relevant regulations of the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission was established by Congress to promote, defend, and advocate internationally recognized human rights norms in a nonpartisan manner, both within and outside of Congress, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant human rights instruments.
Care of the patients in this study was in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all relevant laws.
The study, which received ethical approval from the Human Subjects Committee at Loyola University Maryland, complies with the recommendations of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and all relevant ethical standards.
Our research conforms to the requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki, and the relevant federal and state laws; each participant gave written informed consent under a protocol approved by the Homewood Institutional Review Board on the Use of Human Subjects at Johns Hopkins University.
We have read and understood the BMC Medical Education policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.
