Revising our approach to conducting therapeutic clinical research in COPD

Revising Our Mission

Clinical and research implications of revising psychological tests.

This article integrates those of other contributors to this special section, "Methods and Implications of Revising Assessment Instruments," to underscore important conceptual factors to consider when undertaking test revisions. These considerations include determination of when test measures have become sufficiently understood to be incorporated in a test revision, cohort effects, revision of a...

Research Essay: Improving Our Approach to Internet and SOA Projects

In the late 1990s, the internet boom required new techniques and practices from project management that were more overtly agile and (perceived as being) outside of the realm of traditional methodologies. At the time, and to this day to a large extent, traditional methodologies had been the single recognised toolset available to a project manager: and then only really addressing the ‘harder’ dis...

Our Responsibility to Our Research Participants.

As the readers of this journal know all too well, conducting a study takes a lot of time, energy, commitment, and, most of all, work. I do not have to list the myriad steps that need to be taken, often with delays in between, to take a study from good idea to analysis. There are often sweat and tears, if not blood, and, at the end of the process, there may be exhaustion. Then the piles of paper...

Ethical challenges in conducting clinical research in lung cancer.

UNLABELLED The article examines ethical challenges that arise with clinical lung cancer research focusing on design, recruitment, conduct and dissemination. DESIGN problems related to equipoise can arise in lung cancer studies. Equipoise is an ethics precondition for RCTs and exists where there is insufficient evidence to decide which of two or more treatments is best. Difficulties arise in d...