Environmental Factors Predictive of Misbehavior in Collaborative Health Research

Misbehavior in health research—such as fabricating research data, fraudulent billing, or withholding information about known risks from research participants—adversely affects the health care economy and undermines patient trust, which in turn contributes to health disparities and reluctance to enroll in clinical trials. This project used historiometric methods to identify environmental factors that predict severe misbehavior in collaborative health research.

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DuBois, J.M., Anderson, E.E., Chibnall, J., Carroll, K., Gibb, T., Ogbuka, C., & Rubbelke, T. (2013). Understanding research misconduct: A comparative analysis of 120 cases of professional wrongdoing. Accountability in Research. 20(5-6): 320-338.