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Guidelines on good publication practice
I was interested to read the excellent COPE Report paper1 and note the intention of Occupational and Environmental Medicine to follow these guidelines.
In particular, from the occupational health point of view, I welcome the inclusion of involvement of the study participants in consideration and agreement of the research protocol, although I am a little sad that the COPE Group have restricted their consideration of prepublication information of the results to "patients, especially if there are clinical implications".
As you are aware, the professional guidance on ethics for occupational
physicians2 now includes a specific section on
occupational health research which highlights the need to consider
release of results, including prepublication briefings to workforces
who are the subjects of such research. I know that the BMJ Group have long been in support of this sort of ethical stance, and would hope
that in
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