Ethics and Scientific Integrity in Public Health, Epidemiological and Clinical Research

Ethics and Scientific Integrity in Public Health, Epidemiological and Clinical Research.

The ethics and scientific integrity of biomedical and public health research requires that researchers behave in appropriate ways. However, this requires more than following of published research guidelines that seek to prevent scientific misconduct relating to serious deviations from widely accepted scientific norms for proposing, conducting, and reporting research (e.g., fabrication or falsif...

Research ethics committees: preserving research integrity and the public trust.

The research ethics committee (REC) is critical to the preservation of research integrity and public trust in research without which the research enterprise will fail. In a recent published review of data on national regulations and RECs worldwide, the Caribbean region was identified as one of the areas with only a few published guidelines (1) despite previous effort at encouraging the establis...

Scientific Integrity and Publishing Ethics

Important ethical principles and decisions are involved in almost every aspect of scientific literature publication. All too often, these principles and the decisions that flow from them are not shared with readers. In this brief review, I would like to discuss some aspects of scientific integrity and the ethics of publishing scientific material that impact medical publishing to raise awareness...

Ethics in Clinical Research

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Public health ethics and clinical freedom.