Article info
Law, ethics and medicine
Paper
Organ retention and communication of research use following medico-legal autopsy: a pilot survey of university forensic medicine departments in Japan
- Correspondence to Dr Takako Tsujimura-Ito, Department of Japanese Linguistics, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Kawadacho 8-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan; tsujimura{at}m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Citation
Organ retention and communication of research use following medico-legal autopsy: a pilot survey of university forensic medicine departments in Japan
Publication history
- Received October 4, 2012
- Revised June 12, 2013
- Accepted July 16, 2013
- First published August 2, 2013.
Online issue publication
August 13, 2014
Article Versions
- Previous version (2 August 2013).
- You are viewing the most recent version of this article.
Request permissions
If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Copyright information
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions
Other content recommended for you
- Researchers’ preferences and attitudes on ethical aspects of genomics research: a comparative study between the USA and Spain
- One-time general consent for research on biological samples
- Collection, storage and use of blood samples for future research: views of Egyptian patients expressed in a cross-sectional survey
- Informed consent for the study of retained tissues from postmortem examination following sudden infant death
- Public views on the donation and use of human biological samples in biomedical research: a mixed methods study
- Importance of explanation before and after forensic autopsy to the bereaved family: lessons from a questionnaire study
- Evidence of broad-based family support for the use of archival childhood tumour samples in future research
- Responsibilities and obligations of using human research specimens transported across national boundaries
- Research involving storage and use of human tissue: how did the Human Tissue Act 2004 affect decisions by research ethics committees?
- Information and consent for newborn screening: practices and attitudes of service providers