Transatlantic editorial: Institutional investigations of ethically flawed reports in cardiothoracic surgery journals

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Institute of Human Values in Health Care, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
• ² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
• ³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.