Adherence with reporting of ethical standards in COVID-19 human studies: a rapid review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with COVID-19 may feel under pressure to participate in research during the pandemic. Safeguards to protect research participants include ethical guidelines [e.g. Declaration of Helsinki and good clinical practice (GCP)], legislation to protect participants' privacy, research ethics committees (RECs) and informed consent. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) advises researchers to document compliance with these safeguards. Adherence to publication guidelines has been suboptimal in other specialty fields. The aim of this rapid review was to determine whether COVID-19 human research publications report compliance with these ethical safeguards.

Methods

A rapid systematic literature review was conducted in MEDLINE using the search te

SUBMITTER: O'Sullivan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8237766 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature