Unethical and unprofessional conduct observed by residents during their first year of training

Unethical Conduct of Underpowered Clinical Trials

I read with interest the article on the effect of antiseptics on the colonization rate of central venous catheters, published in the recent issue of your Journal.1 Although the topic is very important, the study suffers from many shortcomings, the most important of which is low study power. Assuming expected prevalence rates of 22% and 17% in the control and treatment groups (an effect size of ...

Unethical Behaviour Witnessed by Medical Students During Their Medical Studies

Background: We sought to determine students' perception of ethical behaviour of their peers and instructors during their course of studies, both in the preclinical and clinical years. To this end, we administered a questionnaire to senior medical students in order to assess whether they witnessed unethical behaviour during their four-year course of studies. Methods: A two-part questionnaire was...

unethical conduct of underpowered clinical trials

letter to the editor

Toward a philosophy of dealing with unprofessional conduct.

Hormones and ethics: Understanding the biological basis of unethical conduct.

Globally, fraud has been rising sharply over the last decade, with current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its underlying causes and mechanisms. In this paper, we focus on an important but neglected topic--the biological antecedents and consequences o...