Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which must be documented on the title page of the paper. Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals in an Elsevier publication.
It is important to disclose to patients that images submitted to JAAD may be utilized in various forms of publication and mediums by the Journal and the Publisher, including but not limited to teaching, research, scientific meetings, other professional journals, medical books, broadcasts, advertising, social media, and other similar purposes. These materials may appear in print and online, may be discoverable via search engines, and the public may have access to them.
Within the Editorial Manager peer review system, authors will attest to having obtained written patient consent (or, where applicable, consent from the next of kin, parent/s or legal guardian/s) for use of all patient data and images. Consent forms should be retained by the author's institution(s) in perpetuity; they should not be uploaded to Editorial Manager.
More information can be found in the Guide for Authors.