1Editor-in-Chief, Asian Cardiovascular Thoracic Annals
2Editor-in-Chief, Asia Pacific Heart Journal
3Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
4Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cardiac Surgery
5Editor, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
6Executive Editor, The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
7Editor, The Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery
This statement was adopted by each of the editors and was published in their respective journals, in or near July 1999 (Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:1). After this, Dr Franklin Rosenfeldt, Editor of the Asia Pacific Heart Journal, expressed the desire that his journal be included in the consortium of cardiothoracic journals, and that he wished to endorse the statement. The editors welcome Dr Rosenfeldt and his journal. The revised Joint Statement follows.