Research manuscripts submitted for publication in the Eastern Heartland Journal of Medicine must be approved by an appropriate ethics committee or institutional review board. Compliance with ethical considerations, such as informed consent and respect for privacy, must be ensured in the conduct of research and presentation of materials for publication, including images related to individual participants.
Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) bioethics policies, and other relevant national regulations.
In the conduct of research involving animals, authors must also fulfill institutional, national, or international guidelines and codes. The editor may reject manuscripts or contact the author(s)' ethics committee if there is suspicion of any work that was not carried out within an appropriate ethical framework.