Moreover, failure to publish is simply a waste of precious research and other resources.
Participants in clinical research are usually assured that their involvement will contribute to knowledge but this does not happen if the research is not reported publicly and accessibly. Furthermore, planners of new research are unable to benefit from relevant past research.įailure to publish is also unethical. Biased reporting of clinical research can result in overestimates of beneficial effects 2 and suppression of harmful effects of treatments. 1 Reliance on an incomplete evidence base for decision-making can lead to imprecise or incorrect conclusions about an intervention's effects. In the field of clinical research, incomplete and biased reporting has resulted in patients suffering and dying unnecessarily. Under-reporting of the results of research in any field of scientific enquiry is scientific misconduct because it delays discovery and understanding. Finally, before you dropped any of your partially filled survey returns, think it over, go over it and review/validate their responses.Why is incomplete reporting of research a problem? you can encounter them if you have open ended questions. In some of my surveys, I only dropped survey returns when respondents only fill-in their profile but has no answers on the survey questions and those that their answers is incomprehensible (yes, there are respondents who are not serious enough in providing answers and i find it annoying most of the time). The good side of this is that you can maximize the margin of error into your final analyses (which would affect the confidence interval of the statistics if sample size is too small). But what to do with your returns with missing responses? I would suggest you still include them but you have to be transparent in your presentation of results by including the percentage of respondents that has skipped answering (some survey's includes don't know the answer/decline to answer to make sure no missing responses in the returns). This will help you draft questions properly in your next survey.
Did you state it in a manner that is too difficult for the respondents to understand or is the question too sensitive for respondents to answer. Rather than throwing away those returns, try to review the questions where they skipped answering. Before you drop out any of those survey returns with missing responses, you have to consider the cost you incurred while gathering these returns.
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