Regulations and guidelines for research are only a starting point to ensure ethical research practice

Hansa Jain

Abstract


Ethical research practice is an umbrella term enlisting various aspects of research practices including clinical interventions, surveys, case-control and cohort studies, studies involving children and studies in developing countries. All the mentioned aspects vary in their conduction and use of ethics. According to some ethics, its rules and guidelines are just the starting point of the research. The following text clears out the doubts on the ethics and elaborates on the prominence of ethical practices in the prodigious field of research.

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Research ethics, bioethics, public health, clinical trials.

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