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SMLE Question #1019
Patient Safety, Preventive & Ethics
Ethics
Last updated: February 2026
A 45-year-old clinician-researcher is preparing a manuscript from a clinical study. While writing the results, he intentionally changes several recorded values to make the intervention appear more effective and omits prespecified outcomes that do not support his hypothesis. He submits the manuscript with these modified results. What is this type of unethical research behavior called?
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