Transparency and Accountability of Pediatric Trials: Should Consent Rate Reporting Be Mandatory?

Reporting elder abuse: should it be mandatory or voluntary?

Blockchain protocols in clinical trials: Transparency and traceability of consent

Clinical trial consent for protocols and their revisions should be transparent for patients and traceable for stakeholders. Our goal is to implement a process allowing the collection of patients' informed consent, which is bound to protocol revisions, storing and tracking the consent in a secure, unfalsifiable and publicly verifiable way, and enabling the sharing of this information in real tim...

Should CPD for opioid prescribing be mandatory?

Dear Colleagues, By the time this issue of Canadian Family Physician is published, we will have celebrated Family Medicine Forum’s 15th year; those at the Annual Meeting of Members will have decided on whether to support a proposal for a smaller, skills-based board; and your Board of Directors will have considered the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada’s (FMRAC’s) request to...

Should Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation Be Abolished?

Intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV) was introduced nearly 50 years ago. Despite the initial fanfare and early adoption by many, the role of IMV continues to be questioned. The use of small tidal volumes complicates the application of IMV, and issues with work of breathing, weaning and lack of clear advantages have many calling for a moratorium on its use. Spontaneous breathing, however, ha...

Transparency and accountability

EMBO Molecular Medicine is enriched by a number of innovative policies designed to enhance the editorial process: peer review process files, de-emphasis of confidential referee comments and cross-refereeing.