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- | ====== Anti-Bribery and Ethical Misconduct | + | ====== Anti-Corruption |
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+ | Nested Knowledge will not tolerate bribery and corruption. | ||
===== I. Scope ===== | ===== I. Scope ===== | ||
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This policy applies to Nested Knowledge employees, sub-contractors, | This policy applies to Nested Knowledge employees, sub-contractors, | ||
- | ===== II. Anti-Bribery Policy ===== | + | ==== Customer Personal and Financial Interests |
- | Health Care Professionals (HCPs) may benefit financially from research | + | Nested Knowledge delivers software services to companies engaged in biomedical |
- | Government officials may have stakes in the results of research | + | The research |
+ | * payer reimbursement for drugs, devices, and other interventions. | ||
+ | * regulatory approval of drugs and devices by the FDA | ||
+ | * regulatory approval | ||
+ | * bids awarded to contract research organizations | ||
+ | * publication success in medical journals | ||
+ | * grants awarded to research investigators | ||
- | Additionally, | + | ===== II. Anti-Corruption Policy ===== |
- | ===== III. Ethical Misconduct Policy ===== | + | **Risk of Corruption: |
+ | In such roles, Nested Knowledge staff may learn of customer research, gain access to projects, and influence the research direction. | ||
- | Employees who suspect ethical misconduct may report it anonymously through a form. The reports will be receipted by at least three Nested Knowledge staff members. | + | Nested Knowledge |
- | A report of misconduct, via any mode of communication, | ||
- | <WRAP center round info 70%> | + | ==== > Manipulating Data ==== |
- | Report ethical misconduct in the anonymous[[https:// | + | |
- | </WRAP> | + | |
+ | If a customer explicitly grants a Nested Knowledge staff member access to their nests, there is a risk the staff may manipulate collected data for their personal or financial gain. This includes changing the value of a data points and excluding studies. Such behavior will result in instant termination, | ||
- | ===== Policy Enforcement | + | ==== > Violating Confidentiality |
- | This policy will be updated on an annual basis. The next update will be done by Spring 2024. Employees will be required to review the policy annually. This policies will be distributed to all Nested Knowledge | + | A Nested Knowledge |
- | ===== . Revision History ===== | + | All Nested Knowledge staff sign Non-Disclosure Agreements and received training on [[https:// |
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+ | ==== > Compromising Research Integrity ==== | ||
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+ | Nested Knowledge prohibits staff from advising customers on collecting data in a misleading or biased manner, such as encouraging customers to: | ||
+ | * manipulate the search strategy to exclude particular articles | ||
+ | * create overly-selective exclusion criteria | ||
+ | * recommend a meta-analysis of inappropriate study types | ||
+ | * skip the selection of certain endpoints | ||
+ | * compare certain therapies, leaving other comparators that would be appropriate. | ||
+ | * convey numerical difference as statistical difference | ||
+ | * select subgroups inappropriately | ||
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+ | ===== III. Policy Enforcement and Review ===== | ||
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+ | This policy will be updated on an annual basis. This policy will be distributed to all Nested Knowledge employees and contractors, | ||
+ | ===== Revision History ===== | ||
^Author^Date of Revision/ | ^Author^Date of Revision/ | ||
- | |K. Cowie|03/ | + | |K. Cowie|03/ |
+ | |K. Kallmes|03/ | ||
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