Research ethics in the modern era

Abstract

Subject confidentiality and inducting qualified personnel with adequate experience should be mandatory provisions. [...]all records should be easily accessible and retrievable for accurate reporting verification and interpretation. [...]the key question in most research studies is not whether a new therapy is better than a placebo, but whether it is better than the current standard of care, or a less effective intervention. [26] This is because career pressure in science has driven the imperative to “publish or perish” among young researchers. [...]the incidence of guest authorship (where there is stated authorship in the absence of involvement, also known as gift authorship) and ghost authorship (where the real author is not listed as an author) has also become increasingly common. [...]ensuring the sense of well-being as a patient perspective as well as evaluation of their ability to make their own decision must be taken care of.