Abstract
All publications resulting from scientific research require compliance to ethical standards that characterize investigators’ appropriate conduct, which translates into integrity in research. However, there is a distinct research modality known as “clinical research”, which has been seeking to act with integrity in order to strengthen the basis of its activities carried out for the benefit of society as a whole. The purpose of this work was to identify the people involved in this process as well as their intended and actual role in the modern scenario. The search for and the discovery of new drugs will benefit the entire community, provided that public health policies are efficient – thereby standardizing people’s access to those discoveries. Therefore, the concept of integrity in research must expand its horizons in order to also encompass clinical research, in which participants must be guided and charged to apply good practices in the various stages of research development, which will allow for comprehensive and successful research.
Ethics research; Clinical trial; Legislation as topic; Human rights