Your Easy Guide to Clinical Studies

Based on principles of research integrity, the research community is responsible to formulate and establish good research practices, such as:

• Reliability: to promote high quality research, reflected in the design, methodology, analysis of study results, including the use of its resources. Quality based research instils credibility and trust in research results
• Honesty: to develop, undertake, review, report, and communicate research in a transparent, complete, fair, and unbiased manner
• Respect: to approach and handle colleagues, study participants, society, ecosystems, environmental and cultural heritage with respect
• Accountability: to accept responsibility for implemented research projects and its potential wider impact, starting with the research idea up until the publication of its results

Ensure to implement the principles of research integrity when planning, implementing and publishing your study results.

References

All European Academies (ALLEA) – see in particular publication

• The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity

CIOMS guidelines – see in particular guidelines

• 2 Research conducted in low-resources settings
• 6 Caring for participants’ health needs

SAAS Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity – see in particular chapters

• Chapter 3 Basic principles
• Chapter 5 Violations of scientific integrity / Fabrication / Falsification / Plagiarism / Misconducts

SAMS handbook Research with human subjects – see in particular chapters

• Chapter 4 Scientific requirements
• Chapter 11 Publication of study results

UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights – see in particular article

Art. 15 Sharing of benefits

Swiss Law

HRA – see in particular article

• Art. 10 Scientific requirements

ClinO – see in particular articles

• Art. 3 Scientific integrity
• Art. 4 Scientific quality

ClinO-MD – see in particular

• Art. 3, a Applicable provisions

HRO – see in particular

• Art. 15, c8 Review Areas