Perspective on reducing errors in research

Hanan Aboumatar; Carol Thompson; Emmanuel Garcia-Morales; Ayse P. Gurses; Mohammad Naqibuddin; Jamia Saunders; Samuel W. Kim; Robert AWise

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications (Sep 2021)

Perspective on reducing errors in research

Hanan Aboumatar,
Carol Thompson,
Emmanuel Garcia-Morales,
Ayse P. Gurses,
Mohammad Naqibuddin,
Jamia Saunders,
Samuel W. Kim,
Robert AWise

Affiliations

Hanan Aboumatar: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, MD, USA; Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, JHSOM, JHU Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Corresponding author. Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 750 E Pratt St, 15th Floor, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
Carol Thompson: Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Emmanuel Garcia-Morales: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, MD, USA; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ayse P. Gurses: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, USA; Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mohammad Naqibuddin: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jamia Saunders: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, MD, USA
Samuel W. Kim: Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, JHU, Baltimore, MD, USA
Robert AWise: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 23
p. 100838

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Efforts to ensure research integrity has mostly focused on research misconduct. However, the complexity of research operations and processes makes research work also prone to unintentional errors. To safeguard against errors and their consequences, strategies for error reduction, detection, and mitigation can be applied to research work. Nurturing a scientific culture that encourages error disclosure and rectification is essential to reduce the negative consequences of errors. Creating repositories where errors can be reported can enable learning from errors and creation of more robust research processes.

Published in Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications

ISSN: 2451-8654 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/contemporary-clinical-trials-communications/

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