title: Reporting results of research involving human subjects: an ethical obligation.
abstract: Researchers have an ethical responsibility to report the results of research involving human subjects. Dissemination of results ensures that patient care is based on good science and that the field of medicine advances based on complete and accurate knowledge. However, current evidence suggests that publication is often neglected or substantially delayed, especially in the case of negative and inconclusive results. Researchers, editors and reviewers should value all high-quality research regardless of the conclusiveness of the results and ensure that all research involving human subjects is registered in a publicly accessible database.
authors.affiliation: JW LEE Center for Global Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Allison Baer
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4454-9949
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Alley
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Jeong-Wook
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0242-1805
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Sung-Tae
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-0300-1944
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Hong
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics*; D011643:Publishing / Q000941:ethics*; D056910:Republic of Korea; D058028:Research Report; D035842:Research Subjects
keywords: Ethics, Research; Negative Results; Results Reporting; Trial Registration