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Reporting animal research - worthy of a rethink?

Back in September 2006 the ALPSP held a one-day meeting on ‘publication ethics’. During the day I learnt much about how journal editors and publishers had worked with other parties to improve the reporting of research involving human subjects. I was left wondering if there were similar initiatives for the reporting of research involving animals given that both areas of research can be controver...

Mandatory reporting of professional incompetence.

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Is whistleblowing now mandatory? The impact of mandatory reporting law on trust relationships in health care.

Trust is vital for promoting positive health care relationships aimed at achieving positive patient outcomes. Patients, as well as the broader society, trust that health care practitioners who have been granted authority by the state to provide safe and beneficial health care are competent to do so. Recent instances where patients have been harmed as the result of treatment that fell below the ...

Technical Support Document for the Petrochemical Production Sector: Proposed Rule for Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases

Mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.