Good Laboratory Practices Are Not Synonymous with Good Scientific Practices, Accurate Reporting, or Valid Data

Good Laboratory Practices Are Not Synonymous with Good Scientific Practices, Accurate Reporting, or Valid Data

Good Laboratory Practices: Tyl Responds

Good reporting practices and the CONSORT.

Cada vez mais têm sido dada atenção às boas práticas de redação e sua utilidade em artigos científicos. Ensaios clínicos aleatorizados, quando concebidos, conduzidos e relatados de forma apropriada, representam o padrão ouro na avaliação de tratamentos médicos. Entretanto, os ensaios clínicos podem produzir resultados enviesados se não houver rigor metodológico. Para avaliar criteriosamente uma...

Reducing Research Waste Through Good Reporting Practices

Roughly 85% of healthcare research funding may be wasted due to several avoidable reasons, including poor research question selection, poor study design, selective nonpublication, and poor reporting.1 The cost of waste worldwide was estimated at 200 billion United States dollars in 2010.1 All actors in the research field—researchers, institutions, regulators, funders, publishers, and policy mak...

Good enough practices in scientific computing

Computers are now essential in all branches of science, but most researchers are never taught the equivalent of basic lab skills for research computing. As a result, data can get lost, analyses can take much longer than necessary, and researchers are limited in how effectively they can work with software and data. Computing workflows need to follow the same practices as lab projects and noteboo...