Raising concerns on questionable ethics approvals – a case study of 456 trials from the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection | Research Integrity and Peer Review
▻https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-023-00134-4
We have presented a case study of 456 trials from the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection. Our investigation has revealed serious concerns on the ethics approvals of these trials ranging from the re-use of the same ethics approval number 248 times on trials with significantly different subjects, samples, and countries of investigation, to potential lack of local ethics approval for studies conducted abroad. To the best of our knowledge, our investigation is the first to reveal concerns over the potentially inappropriate reuse of ethics approval numbers on such a massive scale. While our concerns have been acted on by one publisher (PLoS), most publishers are either still investigating the issue or have not yet responded to us. This investigation thus highlights the needs for guidelines and processes for readers, reviewers, and editorial teams, to report and respond to ethics approval misuse and concerns.
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