Tag: clinical decision making
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Imposter Participants Threaten Health Studies: Experts Call for Stronger Safeguards
The rising challenge of imposter participants in health research Health studies increasingly rely on online recruitment to reach diverse populations quickly and at scale. But this shift has brought a troubling problem to the fore: imposter participants. In a commentary published in The BMJ, Eileen Morrow and colleagues from the University of Oxford argue that…
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Imposter Participants in Health Research: A Growing Threat
Background: Why imposter participants matter in health research Imposter participants—individuals who deliberately provide false or misleading data, or automated bots that mimic human responses—pose a growing challenge to health research. As The BMJ highlights, this issue undermines not only the data used to derive clinical insights but also the policies and medical decisions built on…