Ethics Flashcards
Cognitive or Communicative Impairments)
Vulnerable persons
Vulnerable persons:
😔Who have difficulty giving information
Signing or understanding informed consent
Susceptible to adverse events.
Research Participants who Require Additional Protections
Vulnerable persons
Social and Economic Disadvantages
Research Misconduct
It means fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting its results
persons who have made only trivial contributions to the paper
Guest authorship
who made substantial contributions to the paper but are not listed as authors
Ghost authors
ICMJIE recommend that
authorship be based on the following
4 criteria
The institutions are required to have
1) Ethical (IRB) review of protocol and informed consent
2) Administrative review of proposals, contract and grants
3) Scientific peer review
the first significant effort of the medical community to regulate research itself
Deceleration of Helsinki
Belmont report
✌️Respect
Beneficence
Justice.
Error is defined as
the difference between the true value of a measurement and the recorded value of a measurement
There are many sources of errors
- Random Error
- Systematic Error (Bias)
Any factor that leads to conclusions that are systematically different from the truth
Bias
Systemic deviation of results or inference from truth
Bias
It is also known as “Neyman bias”, or “Survivor bias”.
Prevalence-Incidence bias
It is a common source of systematic error in studies that rely on participants’ ability to accurately remember and report past events, exposures, or experiences.
Recall bias
It means a mixing of effect of an extraneous factor (confounder) with effect of interest on outcome distorting the association between exposure and disease
Confounder
The best design to identify incidence and natural history of a disease
Cohort
a careful, detailed report by one or more clinicians of the profile of a single patient.
Case report
One of the first steps in outbreak investigation
Case reports and case series