Aboumatar Hanan, Thompson Carol, Garcia-Morales Emmanuel, Gurses Ayse P, Naqibuddin Mohammad, Saunders Jamia, Kim Samuel W, AWise Robert
Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, JHSOM, JHU Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2021 Aug 18;23:100838. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2021.100838. eCollection 2021 Sep.
Efforts to ensure research integrity has mostly focused on research misconduct. However, the complexity of research operations and processes makes research work also prone to unintentional errors. To safeguard against errors and their consequences, strategies for error reduction, detection, and mitigation can be applied to research work. Nurturing a scientific culture that encourages error disclosure and rectification is essential to reduce the negative consequences of errors. Creating repositories where errors can be reported can enable learning from errors and creation of more robust research processes.
确保研究诚信的努力大多集中在研究不当行为上。然而,研究操作和流程的复杂性使得研究工作也容易出现无意的错误。为了防范错误及其后果,可以将减少、检测和减轻错误的策略应用于研究工作。培育一种鼓励错误披露和纠正的科学文化对于减少错误的负面影响至关重要。创建可以报告错误的知识库能够从错误中学习并创建更稳健的研究流程。