WASP (Write a Scientific Paper): Ethical issues and data protection in research.

Medical ethics and related topics such as data protection are often viewed as extraneous encumberments by researchers. However these fields provide guidelines for correct conduct and are mostly common sense. This Best Practice Guideline collection will focus on various related aspects pertaining to ethics in publication, and this paper will outline the key points in each of these papers in the collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]