Professional Ethics in Biomedical Science: from Open Access to Conflict of Interest

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-266
Author(s):  
Roberto Pontremoli
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Biomedical Science

scholarly journals Estimating the reproducibility & transparency of smoking cessation behaviour change interventions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Norris ◽  
Yiwei He ◽  
Rachel Loh ◽  
Robert West ◽  
Susan Michie
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Smoking Behaviour ◽  
Funding Source ◽  
Behaviour Change Intervention ◽  
Behaviour Change Interventions ◽  
Replication Studies ◽  
Randomised Controlled

Introduction: Activities promoting research reproducibility and transparency are crucial for generating trustworthy evidence. Evaluation of smoking interventions is one area where vested interests may motivate reduced reproducibility and transparency. Aims: Assess markers of transparency and reproducibility in smoking behaviour change intervention evaluation reports.Methods: One hundred evaluation reports of smoking behaviour change intervention randomised controlled trials published in 2018-2019 were identified. Reproducibility markers of pre-registration, protocol sharing, data-, materials- and analysis script-sharing, replication of a previous study and open access publication were coded in identified reports. Transparency markers of funding and conflict of interest declarations were also coded. Coding was performed by two researchers, with inter-rater reliability calculated using Krippendorff’s alpha.Results: Seventy-one percent of reports were open access and 73% pre-registered. However, only 13% provided accessible materials, 7% accessible data and 1% accessible analysis scripts. No reports were replication studies. Ninety-four percent of reports provided a funding source statement and eighty-eight percent of reports provided a conflict of interest statement.Conclusions: Open data, materials, analysis and replications are rare in smoking behaviour change interventions, whereas funding source and conflict of interest declarations are common. Future smoking research should be more reproducible to enable knowledge accumulation.

scholarly journals Justice and Conflict of Interest Quasi Judicial Body – Dental Council in Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Cecilia Young
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Independent Commission Against Corruption ◽  
Independent Commission ◽  
Public Bodies

Dental Councils are Quasi-Judicial Bodies, Declaration of the Conflict of Interest is vital to the fair trial. This short communication discussed the issue regarding the related laws, code of professional ethics and the sample code of conduct for members of public bodies from Independent Commission Against Corruption. A compulsory session for the Declaration of Conflict of Interest is necessary before the Preliminary Investigation and the Hearing.

scholarly journals Research on the Unethical Conducts and Practices among Professionals in the Construction Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 1130-1136
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Time Cost ◽  
Audit Process ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Contracting Process ◽  
Strict Rule

Construction industry involved with large number of stakeholders. This industry has a complex contractual structure besides facing with several of psychological human behavior that exposed to the unethical conducts and practices among professionals. Professional ethics warmly has been discussed today within the construction industry. Ethics can be known as a major catalyst for the construction industry to attain status to a successful industry in the worldwide. As a result the aims to be a developed country can be achieved with cooperation from every structural in the construction community. However, without any changes on the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry can make it all this becomes useless. Thus, the solid understandings and changes need to be executed, implemented and reinforced to ensure that the problems in the professional ethics can be resolved. This paper discusses and reviews on the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the different countries such as Malaysia, Pakistan, Australia, Kenya, United Kingdom and China whereby the different behavior will be visible. The most common highlighted for the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry were the corruption, negligence, unfair conduct, overriding on audit process over contracting process, favoritism, strict rule, conflict of interest, collusive tendering and violation of environmental ethics. In the previous studies, there were mechanism suggested whereby they are divided into three mechanisms included short, medium and long term solutions based on the project factors which are time, cost and quality. The mechanisms suggested can be catalyst in achieving and enhancing ethical conducts and practices among the professional in the construction industry. This review will provide useful information to every stakeholder in confronting with the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry involved

Conflict of Interest in Open-Access Publishing

2013 ◽  
Vol 369 (5) ◽  
pp. 491-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deeb N. Salem ◽  
Marcia M. Boumil
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Open Access Publishing

scholarly journals Fast Forward Science: Risks and Benefits in the Rapid Science of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
Jelte Wicherts
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Vaccination Programs ◽  
Peer Reviews

AbstractSince the onset of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic in late 2019, the scientific literature on the SARS-COV-2 virus and the disease COVID-19 has a growth rate that resembles the growth in confirmed COVID-19 cases that continue to make media headlines all across the globe. Biomedical coronavirus research started slowly but increased to hundreds of articles per week—not unlike the spread of the virus itself. At the time of writing in mid-2020, around 2500 publications per week appear in PubMed on COVID-19 or SARS-COV-2. This new biomedical literature has emerged at an unprecedented but will the scientific community be able to end the suffering caused by the pandemic? Can we trust the insights from the rapidly emerging scientific literature on the coronavirus to implement wide-ranging social, economic, and health policies and vaccination programs? To answer these questions, I here relate the rapid science on the coronavirus pandemic to regular biomedical science and the meta-scientific insights on it. I focus my attention on peer reviews, open access, retractions, open data, and registration of studies.

Engineering and ethics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Davis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Health Safety ◽  
Proper Response

Engineering ethics is that form of applied or professional ethics concerned with the conduct of engineers. Though engineers do many different things, they share a common history, which includes codes of ethics. Most codes explicitly declare public health, safety and welfare to be ‘paramount’. Many questions of engineering ethics concern interpretation of ‘public’, ‘safety’ and ‘paramount’. Engineers also have important obligations to client and employer, including confidentiality, proper response to conflict of interest, stewardship of resources, and honesty (not only avoiding false statements but volunteering certain information). Each engineer also has obligations to other engineers and to the profession as a whole.

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