Ethical Guidelines of the Japanese Society for Abdominal Emergency Medicine for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects

Abstract

The ethics committee of the “Japanese Society for Abdominal Emergency Medicine (JSAEM)” has created ethical guidelines for medical and health research. Members of this society should observe these guidelines when presenting research at official meetings and when contributing articles to the official journal. These guidelines consist of original ethical guidelines developed by this society, with clinical applications based on both the “Declaration of Helsinki” and the “Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects.” Clinical studies involving human subjects are divided into studies requiring ethical review, such as observational or interventional studies, and studies that do not require ethical review, such as case reports. With the permission of the facility president, opt─out and inclusion agreements were obtained as transition measures, limiting the need for this society to perform ethical reviews only for observational studies from institutions that do no have ethical committees.