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A Laboratory Critical Incident and Error Reporting System for Experimental Biomedicine

We here propose the implementation of a simple and effective method to enhance the quality of basic and preclinical academic research: critical incident reporting (CIR). CIR has become a standard in clinical medicine but to our knowledge has never been implemented in the context of academic basic re...

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Autores principales: Dirnagl, Ulrich, Przesdzing, Ingo, Kurreck, Claudia, Major, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5131907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27906976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2000705
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author Dirnagl, Ulrich
Przesdzing, Ingo
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description We here propose the implementation of a simple and effective method to enhance the quality of basic and preclinical academic research: critical incident reporting (CIR). CIR has become a standard in clinical medicine but to our knowledge has never been implemented in the context of academic basic research. We provide a simple, free, open-source software tool for implementing a CIR system in research groups, laboratories, or large institutions (LabCIRS). LabCIRS was developed, tested, and implemented in our multidisciplinary and multiprofessional neuroscience research department. It is accepted by all members of the department, has led to the emergence of a mature error culture, and has made the laboratory a safer and more communicative environment. Initial concerns that implementation of such a measure might lead to a “surveillance culture” that would stifle scientific creativity turned out to be unfounded.
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spelling pubmed-51319072016-12-21 A Laboratory Critical Incident and Error Reporting System for Experimental Biomedicine Dirnagl, Ulrich Przesdzing, Ingo Kurreck, Claudia Major, Sebastian PLoS Biol Community Page We here propose the implementation of a simple and effective method to enhance the quality of basic and preclinical academic research: critical incident reporting (CIR). CIR has become a standard in clinical medicine but to our knowledge has never been implemented in the context of academic basic research. We provide a simple, free, open-source software tool for implementing a CIR system in research groups, laboratories, or large institutions (LabCIRS). LabCIRS was developed, tested, and implemented in our multidisciplinary and multiprofessional neuroscience research department. It is accepted by all members of the department, has led to the emergence of a mature error culture, and has made the laboratory a safer and more communicative environment. Initial concerns that implementation of such a measure might lead to a “surveillance culture” that would stifle scientific creativity turned out to be unfounded. Public Library of Science 2016-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5131907/ /pubmed/27906976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2000705 Text en © 2016 Dirnagl et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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