Human research ethics in biomedical journals

Ethics in scientific research and in the publishing of papers in biomedical journals.

Ethics. Protecting communities in biomedical research.

Although for the last 50 years, ethicists dealing with human experimentation have focused primarily on the need to protect individual research subjects and vulnerable groups, biomedical research, especially in genetics, now requires the establishment of standards for the protection of communities. We have developed such a strategy, based on five steps. (i) Identification of community characteri...

Medical Ethics in Military Biomedical Research

The ethics of biomedical research on prisoners.

Introduction Over the past several years little has been reported regarding the ethics of biomedical research among prisoners. It appears that, following a spate of reports about egregious transgressions of canons of ethics by clinicians engaged in research in prisons, regulations put in place may have solved the problems. However, the dictum of a Persian Prince who is credited with advising a ...

Research Paper: Accuracy of References in Five Biomedical Informatics Journals

OBJECTIVE To determine the rate and type of errors in biomedical informatics journal article references. METHODS References in articles from the first 2004 issues of five biomedical informatics journals, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Methods of Information in Medicine, and Artificial In...