World-first international guidelines weeds-out potentially critical scientific fraud

The number of retractions issued for scientific research articles in 2023 exceeded 10,000—smashing annual records. To date, publishers have struggled to clean up a slew of papers with serious integrity concerns. Now a world-first framework for assessing research integrity in clinical guidelines, has been published in eClinicalMedicine. Monash University researchers in Australia developed the Research Integrity in Guidelines and evIDence synthesis (RIGID) framework. Clinical trials which lack integrity or present concerns over trustworthiness, can compromise patient care, both directly through unnecessary or harmful treatments, or indirectly through wasted resources and misdirected future medical research. “It is estimated that at least Read More