Enhancing Partnerships of Institutions and Journals to Address Concerns About Research Misconduct: Recommendations From a Working Group of Institutional Research Integrity Officers and Journal Editors and Publishers.

Importance: Institutions and journals strive to promote and protect the integrity of the research record, and both groups are equally committed to ensuring the reliability of all published data.

Observations: Three US universities coordinated a series of virtual meetings from June 2021 to March 2022 for a working group composed of senior, experienced US research integrity officers (RIOs), journal editors, and publishing staff who are familiar with managing issues of research integrity and publication ethics. The goal of the working group was to improve the collaboration and transparency between institutions and journals to ensure that research misconduct and publication ethics are managed properly and efficiently.

First meeting in Asia of the Asia Pacific Research Integrity network.

In 2017, the University of Hong Kong and the University of California San Diego co-hosted the first Asian meeting of the recently formed Asia Pacific Research Integrity (APRI) network in Hong Kong. Aligned with planning meetings in 2015 and 2016 funded in part by the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI), the Hong Kong meeting was designed by a multi-national planning committee to address pressing challenges in research integrity: improving multi-national communication; exchanging information on managing misconduct investigations; and sharing best practices to promote research integrity. To create a sustainable, robust international partnership to promote research integrity in the region, the purpose of this 2017 meeting was to foster multi-national awareness, understanding, and opportunities for collaboration.

Designing theoretically-informed implementation interventions: fine in theory, but evidence of effectiveness in practice is needed.

The Improved Clinical Effectiveness through Behavioural Research Group (ICEBeRG) authors assert that a key weakness in implementation research is the unknown applicability of a given intervention outside its original site and problem, and suggest that use of explicit theory offers an effective solution. This assertion is problematic for three primary reasons. First, the presence of an underlying theory does not necessarily ease the task of judging the applicability of a piece of empirical evidence.

Atypical antipsychotics and parkinsonism.

Background: Atypical antipsychotic agents are thought to be less likely than older typical agents to produce parkinsonism. This has not been well documented. We compared the risk of development of incident parkinsonism among older adults dispensed atypical relative to typical antipsychotics.

Reader's guide to critical appraisal of cohort studies: 1. Role and design.

Cohort studies can provide valuable information unavailable from randomised trials, but readers need to be alert to possible flaws

Houghton Scale of prosthetic use in people with lower-extremity amputations: Reliability, validity, and responsiveness to change.

Objective: To evaluate the responsiveness to change and the floor and ceiling effects of the Houghton Scale.

Design: One-week and 3-month test-retest to evaluate reliability, validity, and responsiveness to change.

Setting: Amputee rehabilitation program.

Interruptions to amputee rehabilitation.

Objectives: To determine the frequency of interruptions to inpatient amputee rehabilitation, and to identify the causes, risk factors, and consequences of these interruptions.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Inpatient amputee rehabilitation service.