Good Publication Practice

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Good Publication Practice (GPP) guideline (for pharmaceutical companies) were first came into being in 2003. For any guidelines to be considered seriously, they must be applicable in the current situation. So, they need to be upgraded at regular time intervals. Following this simple rule of thumb, after the formation of first GPP guideline in 2003, they were revised in 2010 to form GPP2 and now in 2015 to present as GPP3. As a number of regulations are being enforced in the healthcare or publication sectors, alongwith many technical innovations and incessant business models, these guidelines need to bring to light the corporate behavior expectations of the society, the higher clarity demands, and the everchanging views about what constitutes …show more content…

Therefore, publishing standards, regulations and guideliness are needed in order to ensure that everyone knows there responsibilities, liabilities, accountabilities that are linked to the intellectual credibility of their publications. The results of studies that have been funded need to be published accurately, thereby maintaining the transparency and timeliness. The sponsors also need to keep ethical considerations in mind while publishing these results. For the purpose of guaranteeing scientific communications with a high quality, one needs to stay updated about all changes pertinent to industry guidelines and government regulations. These are also needed for ensuring the integrity, completeness and transparency of reports. The accountability and accurateness is also judged taking these regulations as a reference. Writers and publishers need to focus on supporting the formulation of high-quality, accurate and informative scientific publications that make the target audience aware of the clinical and nonclinical developments and the healthcare environment. This can be achieved by following the highest ethical standards for ensuring accurate, timely, high-quality and transparent reporting. Also, the publishers need to acknowledge the need of differentiating legitimate and professional medical writing from the deceitful and unethical practice of …show more content…

Guidelines need to be updated periodically so that they bring to light the present scenario and may be used in it. Publishers and writers should work with the aim of developing high-quality, accurate and scientific publications, related to clinical and non-clinical developments, that are informative for the audience. The GPP2 guidelines [2] came into existence in 2010 to recommend the necessary changes for meeting the requirements of ethical practices by individuals and organisations at that time. The purpose was to contribute to correct communication of medical research sponsored by companies. They were mainly focused on guidelines that are applicable to peer reviewed journal articles and presentations at scientific

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