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Ethics in human research: when is clinical practice research?
1 Department of cardiology, Section for Heart Failure, Karolinska University Hospital, N305, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
2 Department of Emergency and Cardiovascular Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
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This editorial refers to ‘Sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction’
by Thomas Bitter et al., on page 602
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The ‘guide for authors’ section on our web site, states that the EJHF participates in the HEART network, a network of editors from most cardiovascular journals who exchange information and have a common ethical standard as outlined in our mission statement. This standard addresses conflicts of interest, scientific fraud, confidentiality and embargos, authorship criteria, claims of ownership and priority with regard to previously published data, claims of benefits of products or techniques, and compliance with Institutional Review Board (IRB) requirements and the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki, The Geneva Declaration, the Belmont Report, and Good Clinical Practice from the FDA.
The Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm, accessed 23
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