Battling the bots: Mitigating malicious responses in oncology nursing research

Lorelei Newton, Claire Fullerton, Helen Monkman

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Nursing research is vital to the creation and translation of evidence to inform practice, policy and guidelines. As researchers, we are also committed to upholding the integrity of nursing research, as well as supporting our research colleagues. In this spirit, we share our recent survey experience and thinking about a new threat to research integrity with troubling implications.


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