Integrity of Randomized Clinical Trials: How to prevent research misconduct and ensure transparency [Hardcover]

1.???? Introduction

2.???? Randomized clinical trials

3.???? Integrity of trials

4.???? Ethics committee approval and participant consent

5.???? Trial planning

6.???? Trial oversight

7.???? Publishing trials responsibly

8.???? Authorship of trials

9.???? Evidence syntheses of randomized clinical trials

10.? Investigating research misconduct allegations

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Today scientists are expected to be more accountable and transparent than at any time in history. Globally the pursuit of knowledge creation enjoys a place of distinction, and the public expects to reap considerable benefit from the innovative contributions made by researchers.

Today, scientists are expected to be more accountable and transparent than at any other time in history. Globally, the pursuit of knowledge creation enjoys a place of distinction, and the public expects to reap considerable benefits from the innovative contributions made by researchers. It is, therefore, more important than ever that ethics, transparency, and professionalism explicitly guide research integrity.

Despite the clear importance of acquiring a fundamental understanding of clinical trials in the context of health research and innovation, medical training generally fails to cover clinical trial integrity in its curriculum, including it neither at the undergraduate nor at the postgraduate levels. This new book provides a curriculum to address this gap, offering best practice guidelines to improve the quality, openness, and trustworthiness of clinical trials and filling a current void in the market.