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ETHICS POLICY

NPWTJ complies with ethical standards disclosed in the COPE guidelines. Our Editorial board uses standard operating procedures for the following situations (based on COPE Guidelines):

- suspected redundant publication

- suspected plagiarism in a submitted manuscript

- suspected fabricated data in a submitted manuscript

- changes in authorship

- suspected ghost, guest or gift authorship

- suspected undisclosed conflict of interest

- suspected an ethical problem with a sybmitted manuscript

- a suspicion that the reviewer has appropriated an author’s idea or data.

Statement of Human and Animal Rights:

Authors reporting experiments on human subjects, should indicate whether the procedures were in accordance with the ethical committee approval of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008, which is available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20091015082020/http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html.

Studies reporting animal experiments should disclose whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed in the materials and methods (experimental procedures) section.

Informed Consent

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be violated. Identifying information, including names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives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 an identifiable patient be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should disclose to these patients whether any potential identifiable material might be available via the Internet as well as in print after publication. Patient consent should be written and archived with the journal, the authors, or both, as dictated by local regulations or laws. Applicable laws vary from locale to locale, and journals should establish their own policies with legal guidance. Since a journal that archives the consent will be aware of patient identity, some journals may decide that patient confidentiality is better guarded by having the author archive the consent and instead providing the journal with a written statement that attests that they have received and archived written patient consent.