© 2005 BMJ Publishing Group & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
LEADING ARTICLE
Research
Good research conduct
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr J Grigg
Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Division of Child Health, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester LE2 7LX, UK; jg33@le.ac.uk
Accepted 5 August 2004
A review of clinical research conduct
Keywords: conflict of interest; duplicate publication; authorship
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
Good intentions alone are not enough to protect researchers from performing bad clinical research. This review examines areas that are most likely to cause problems, in particular duplicate publication, conflict of interest, authorship, and data storage. It also discusses the way journal editors approach research conduct issues, and how to create a research environment conducive to good research conduct.
The conduct of clinical research is increasingly governed by rules. Some are statutory, and others derive from guidelines drawn up by universities, funding bodies, and editors of medical journals. In the past, the conduct of research was a matter of passive trust between authors and journals, and between "hands on" researchers and their supervisors. In contrast, researchers and research managers must now actively work at maintaining good conduct in research. The UK Medical Research Council has identified the key research virtues as selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, honesty, and leadership:1 qualities
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Article
- Atoms
- Howard Bauchner
Arch. Dis. Child. 2005 90: 221.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
- Citation Map
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in ADC Online
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
-
Competing interests (ethics)
-
Other anaesthesia
-
Immunology (including allergy)
- Journalology
- Relevant Article
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
