Scientific integrity includes the rigour of the methods
In their Commentary Wallach, Gonsalves and Ross from Yale lay out a pragmatic and useful classification of scientific integrity that focusses on three areas highly relevant to clinical epidemiology investigators – research, regulatory and clinical decision. The regulatory ones are well known but the research and clinical decision making ones are less commonly included in research ethics courses. Poor methods and poor quality clinical guidelines should indeed be cause for ethical concern given the damage t hat can result.
Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Authors: Peter Tugwell, J. Andr é Knottnerus Tags: Editorial Source Type: research