December 2, the National Health Commission informed 38 medical research integrity cases of investigation and treatment results.
"The medical profession" combed through and found that the notification *** involves 20 hospitals in Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangxi ****, are self-correcting self-exposure. 131 people were demoted, canceled within three years of the qualification of promotion, competition and other sanctions, four people were withdrawn from the title of senior director and deputy director of the qualification of the doctor.
It is worth noting that, in the investigation results of the briefing, the paper counterfeiting events in the "intermediary" identity was mentioned for the first time, and make the corresponding punishment. Such as Suzhou Ninth People's Hospital said in the briefing:
Given to participate in the author and as a third party contact with the intermediary Zhou Moumou a warning within the party; demotion penalty; hospital-wide notification of criticism; transferred to the primary health care unit services for six months, canceled within five years of the promotion of titles, competing for jobs, declared scientific and technological projects, scientific and technological rewards, scientific and technological talent title and evaluation of excellence and priority qualifications.
The third-party intermediary contact Tian Moumou was given a warning within the party, criticized, demoted, transferred out of the Ninth People's Hospital of Suzhou City, canceled within five years of the promotion title, declare science and technology projects, science and technology awards, scientific and technological talent title and evaluation of excellence and priority qualifications.
In addition, in this notification of 20 hospitals, Shandong Province accounted for the largest proportion of 14 hospitals, nearly a hundred doctors involved, the most stringent treatment measures, dozens of people were withdrawn from the higher level of professional and technical positions that have been obtained, revoke the use of the paper to obtain the relevant academic awards and honors, such as:
Qingdao Municipal Central Hospital revoked the correspondent author of the title of the senior level of the juju
Linyi Municipal People's Hospital revoked the paper *** with the author of Han Moumou's deputy senior title appointment qualification;
Qingdao Hai Ci Medical Group revoked the paper *** with the first author of Shi Moumou's qualification of deputy chief physician;
Jining City, Shandong Province, the First People's Hospital to revoke the first author of Cao Mou using the paper to obtain the relevant academic awards and honorary titles;
This year's paper was published on the website of the Qingdao Municipal People's Hospital.
This year, the medical research integrity in the field of supervision, punishment measures continue to strengthen, the National Health Commission has repeatedly issued notification documents related to scientific research integrity and treatment of the circular.
In June 2021, the National Health Commission opened a "medical research integrity column" on its official website, which reproduces the results of investigations and treatments of scientific research integrity cases investigated and publicly notified by healthcare organizations and medical research institutions under the healthcare administration departments at all levels in accordance with the "Rules for Investigating and Treating Cases of Scientific Research Integrity in Medicine". The report will be published on the website of the Ministry of Health.
As of today, the column **** notified 201 cases, the frequency of notification has also increased from once a month to two or three times, dealing with more than 1,000 doctors, the papers involved mainly in the generation of writing and casting, buying and selling data, experimental outsourcing, inappropriate attribution and other academic misconduct.
In addition, the Department of Science and Technology Education of the National Health Commission issued eight consecutive notices on June 3, reiterating the need to strengthen the integrity of medical research.
Two of the old documents, the Notice of Five Don'ts for Publishing Academic Papers and the Code of Integrity and Related Behavior for Medical Research, jointly issued by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Commission for Health and Family Planning, were reissued, requiring each unit to set up a mechanism for investigating and dealing with academic misconduct and to carry out self-checks.
According to the Notice on Special Educational and Rectification Activities for the Construction of Medical Research Integrity and Style of Learning issued by the National Health and Health Commission and the Ministry of Education, a number of places across the country are deploying to conduct special activities and carry out institutional and individual self-checks and rectifications, and a round of thesis self-checks and self-corrections and self-exposures have been set off around the country.
In addition to this, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University took the lead, together with 43 hospitals in 19 provinces and cities *** with the formation of the first domestic "China Hospital Research Integrity Alliance" was also formally established on November 19th.
Guo Hua, chairman of the alliance, previously told the "medical profession", hospitals to carry out research integrity self-correction and self-check special action is conducive to the deterrence of academic misconduct, but the real disclosure of the results of the treatment, "is already at the end of the road, a little bit of mending the meaning of the sheep. "
She believes that most hospitals in China have a great need to promote scientific research integrity, only the lack of timely early warning and intervention mechanisms. "On the basis of zero tolerance, the future is still to focus on missionary prevention, and gradually establish an early warning mechanism and big data analysis platform for scientific research integrity."