Need for a research ethics remediation program

Assessing the Need for a Research Ethics Remediation Program

With supplement funding to the Washington University CTSA, the Restoring Professionalism and Integrity in Research (RePAIR) program was developed at Saint Louis University to meet the remediation needs of institutions nationwide regarding investigators who violate research regulations. With the aim of determining the frequency and kinds of wrongdoing at leading research institutions in the Unit...

Research ethics need consideration.

Do we need research ethics committees?

This issue of the journal sees a number of exchanges on significant ethical problems. ‘Nudges’ have attracted a good deal of attention recently in the context of the ethics of public health interventions. Martin Wilkinson (see page 486) writes a guest editorial introducing important debate on Yashar Saghai’s featured article, Salvaging the concept of nudge (see page 487, Editor’s choice). Also,...

Ethics in global health research: the need for balance

Lauren C Ng, Charlotte Hanlon, Getnet Yimer, David C Henderson, and Abebaw Fekadu Chester M Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA (LCN, DCH); Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (LCN, DCH); Department of Psychiatry (CH, AF) and Department of Pharmacology and Biochemistry (GY), School of Medicine, College of H...

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...