This information has been extracted manually by the HONcode evaluation team during the manual evaluation of the website. These extracts are retrieved from the site at a precise date to support the evaluation criteria. according the 8 ethical principles of the HONcode
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| Information must be authoritative |
Authority: Unless otherwise stated, all the information posted on this website has been written by Dr D.A.Pybus ('The Author'). Dr Pybus is a cardiac anaesthetist and perfusionist in practice in Sydney, Australia. He holds degrees from the university of Cambridge, England (MA; MB; BChir) and is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA).
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| Purpose of the website |
Complementarity: The information on the site is intended for use only by medical practitioners or sonographers with a special interest in perioperative ultrasound. The information provided in the 'Atlas of Perioperative Echocardiography' ('The Atlas') is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient and his or her physician.
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| Mission |
Atlas of Perioperative Echocardiography
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| Confidentiality |
Confidentiality: 1. All patient-identifying data has been removed from the images contained in the Atlas. 2. All email addresses, correspondence or other forms of electronic data exchange between the author and visitors to the site will be regarded as confidential. They will not be released to any third party without the specific approval of the corresponding visitor. Furthermore, data relating to the correspondents will not be added to any database, nor will the correspondents be subject to any form of unsolicited electronic 'mail out' as a result of their communication with the author.
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Information must be documented: Referenced and dated
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Authorship: The 'Atlas of Perioperative Echocardiography' has been written entirely by Dr D.A.Pybus. The author can be contacted here. Whenever possible, communications will be responded to within one week of receipt.
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| Justification of claims |
Justifiability: The author has attempted to use the generic names for all drugs cited in the Atlas. Where the use of a particular make of computer or medical instrument is described, there is no intended implication that other equivalent equipment, made by competing manufacturers, would not be equally well-suited to the particular task.
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| Disclosure of funding sources |
Sponsorship: The site maintenance fees are paid by Manbit PL - an Australian medical software company. The site receives no other form of sponsorship.
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| Advertising policy |
Advertising & Editorial policy: Pages of the Atlas contain a hyperlink to Manbit PL, otherwise no other form of advertising is present. Where reference is made to any particular manufacturer of any computer or medical or scientific instrument, this reference is made for descriptive purposes only. Otherwise, the site contains no 'advertising' (as opposed to 'editorial') content and receives no funding for advertising.
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