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EDITORIAL
New for 2005
Changes and thanks
Joint Editors
EMJ goes monthly and important changes in requirements for patient consent.
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The EMJ will become a monthly publication in January 2005. This is a major step in the development of the journal. We thank all those who have worked so hard to achieve this aim, especially the great support from the British Association for Emergency Medicine, the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS), the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, and BASICS Scotland. This change will allow us to be more topical, more reactive, and quicker at publishing accepted papers, a particularly worrying problem for the journal and authors.
In advance of this change we have reviewed our policies and procedures. These can be viewed in full on http://emj.bmjjournals.com/misc/ifora/jnlguidelines.shtml. One significant change is that we now require patient consent for case reports or small case series where there is patient identifiable information. All other research requires ethical approval and we feel that this is important step in protecting patient
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