Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:40 PM)Data | ||
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Answer: recorded information used to test scientific hypotheses or theories. Data may include laboratory notebooks (paper or digital), field notes, transcribed interviews, spreadsheets, digital images, x-ray photographs, audio or video recordings, and outputs from machines (such as gas chromatographs or DNA sequencers). Original (or primary data) is drawn directly from the data source; secondary (or derived) data is based on the primary data. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:41 PM)Data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) | ||
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Answer: a committee that monitors data from human subjects research to protect participants from harm and promote their welfare. DSMBs may recommend to an institutional review board that a study be stopped or altered. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:41 PM)Data auditing | ||
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Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:42 PM)Data imputation | ||
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Answer: use of statistical methods to fill in or replace missing or lost data. Imputation is not considered to be fabrication if it is done honestly and appropriately. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:43 PM)Data management | ||
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Answer: Practices and policies related to recording, storing, auditing, archiving, analyzing, interpreting, sharing, and publishing data. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:43 PM)Data outlier | ||
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Answer: a data point that is more than two standards deviations from the mean. Removal of outliers without articulating a legitimate reason may constitute data, falsification. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:44 PM)Data use agreement (DUA) | ||
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Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:45 PM)Deception | ||
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Answer: in human subjects research, using methods to deceive subjects about the goals and nature of a study or the methods, tests, interventions, or procedures used in the study. See also Placebo, Observer effect. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:45 PM)Decision-making capacity (DMC) | ||
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Answer: the ability to make sound decisions. DMC is often situational and comes in degrees: for example, a person may be able to order food from a menu but not be able to make a decision concerning complex medical treatment. Factors that can compromise DMC include mental illness or disability, extreme emotional stress, drugs, age, or serious physical illness. DMC is not the same as legal competence: a demented adult may be legally competent but lack DMC. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:46 PM)De-identified data or samples | ||
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Answer: data or biological samples which have been stripped of information, such as name or medical record number, which personally identifies individuals. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:46 PM)Deontology | ||
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Answer: an approach to ethics, such as Kantianism, which emphasizes adherence to rules or principles of conduct. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:47 PM)Discrimination | ||
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Answer: treating people differently based on irrelevant characteristics, such as skin color, ethnicity, or gender. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:47 PM)Double-blinding | ||
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Answer: processes used to prevent human research subjects and researchers from discovering who is receiving an experimental treatment vs. a placebo. Double-blinding is used to control for the placebo effect. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:48 PM)Dual use research | ||
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Answer: research that can be readily used for beneficial or harmful purposes. | ||
Question: (Last edited: Friday, 31 July 2020, 6:49 PM)Duplicate publication | ||
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