Research Ethics — Especially for Handling of Medical Checkup Data

Research Ethics: Validation of A Model for Factors Affecting Research Misconduct in Iranian Medical Research

Background: Designing a comprehensive model for verified relationships based on the actual tested data can help to better understand and explain the factors affecting research misconduct. The purpose of this study is to validate the model for factors affecting research misconduct in Iranian medical research. Method: This is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population consiste...

Statistics and ethics in medical research: V--Analysing data.

The t tests to compare two groups of measurements are used extremely widely, but often incorreCtly.2-4 The problems usually relate to the data not complying with the underlying statistical assumption that the two sets of data come from populations that are Normal and have the same variance. Another serious error is to ignore the fact that the two sets of measurements relate to the same (or matc...

Breaching Medical Ethics in Research

Implication for health policy makers/practice/research/medical education: This editorial emphasizes the importance of abiding by universal protocols of medical ethics when undertaking clinical research. As a researcher with several affiliations and commitments , I am often asked to assess clinical research studies , and approve student dissertation proposals prior to their initiation. One of th...

breaching medical ethics in research

The ethics of publishing medical imaging research.

lthough the editorial process is generally a placid activity, whereby the collective wisdom of the reviewers and editors provides a clear path, we are from time to time faced with issues that generate a lot of animated debate. This issue of iJACC contains a report that triggered an important discussion among the Editorial Board. Yin et al. (1) compared 2 different image acquisition and reconstr...