RDP designed the study, completed ethical submission, consented patients for study, performed, analysed and interpreted gene expression profiling and immunohistochemistry and wrote the manuscript.
LMS participated in study design, ethical submission, consenting of patients for study, interpretation of immunohistochemical data, and writing of manuscript GIM- participated in study design, histopathological review of specimens, provision of tissue microarray, analysis and interpretation of immunohistochemical data, and writing of manuscript.
The main reason for requiring the submission of consent forms was to confirm that consent had been obtained.
The most frequent reason for requiring the submission of consent forms was to confirm the receipt of consent (Table 3).
The submission of consent forms was required by 154 journals (31.4%), and consent forms designed by the journal were available online or by request from 50 journals.
In situations where conflict between physicians and substitute decision makers leads to a submission for Consent and Capacity Board review, appropriate documentation of the elements required for consent to life sustaining therapy will be essential.
However, a large number of editors responding to the questionnaire said that their journals required the submission of consent forms with manuscripts, and editors from eight of the journals providing a consent form stated that they did not accept other forms.
Consent was regarded as necessary by approximately 40% of the journals under study, and the submission of consent forms was required by 30%.
Twenty-one required submission of consent forms in instructions for authors; however, only 10 of these included statements about submitting signed consent forms to the publisher in their consent forms, while one specified, both in its instructions for authors and its consent form, that forms were not to be submitted to the publisher.
The submission of consent forms was required by 30% (154) of the journals studied, and 10% (50) provided their own consent forms for authors to use.
What is overlooked, however, is that the word Islam here applies to a relationship with the Divine, "submission" or "consent," not a religion as is commonly understood.
