Data integrity, reliability and fraud in medical research

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-45

  Baerlocher, Mark Otto ^a   O'Brien, Jeremy ^b   Newton, Marshall ^c   Gautam, Tina ^a   Noble, Jason ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academia; Academic fraud; Data integrity; Data reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FORGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 73549113307     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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