Last updated: November 20, 2025

Informed consent statement

Any research article describing a study (clinical research and case report) involving humans and organ transplantations should contain a statement in the Footnotes section clearly stating that all involved persons (subjects or legally authorized representative) gave their informed consent (written or verbal, as appropriate) prior to study inclusion. In general, the Baishideng Publishing Group (BPG) requires that any and all details that might disclose the identity of the subjects under study should be omitted or anonymized. In the rare situation that a study participant’s identifiable information is crucial to the case presentation, the statement of informed consent is absolutely necessary, unless the participant is deceased. In addition, authors are required to provide the primary version (PDF) of the Informed Consent Form that has been signed by all subjects and investigators of the study, prepared in the official language of the authors’ country to the Editorial Office; for example, authors from China should provide the Chinese version of the document, authors from Italy should provide the Italian version of the document, etc.

Sample wording: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.

Note: Waiver of informed consent for human study subjects may be justifiable under certain rare and specific conditions, such as for a trial with demonstrated minimal risk or cases of emergency care. Authors may petition the BPG for waiver of informed consent, but there is no guarantee that the petition will be granted. In general, the BPG favors the requirement of informed consent for all reports of information (anonymized or identifiable) and reserves the right to refuse publication of such if informed consent was not obtained.

To obey the publication ethics and improve the protection of all patients' rights to privacy, the authors should provide the informed consent form on which the patient's name, address, birthday, address, ward, bed number, hospital number and other private information are obfuscated.

Please click on the links below to download the sample documents of informed consent statement: