Raising concerns on questionable ethics approvals - a case study of 456 trials from the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Mediterranee Infection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The practice of clinical research is strictly regulated by law. During submission and review processes, compliance of such research with the laws enforced in the country where it was conducted is not always correctly filled in by the authors or verified by the editors. Here, we report a case of a single institution for which one may find hundreds of publications with seemingly relevant ethical concerns, along with 10 months of follow-up through contacts with the editors of these articles. We thus argue for a stricter control of ethical authorization by scientific editors and we call on publishers to cooperate to this end.

Methods

We present an investigation of the ethics and legal aspects of 456 studies published by the IHU-MI (Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méd

SUBMITTER: Frank F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10398994 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature