¿Información rápida o información de calidad?: el dilema ético para los editores de revistas en tiempos de pandemia

Abstract

Last months, a huge amount of articles about the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 have been published in order to provide information to help us learning about its physiopathology and, therefore, we will be able to restrain its devastating effects on health. Thus, nowadays some studies methodologically poor are being published which, generally, have not been peer reviewed as usually and, therefore, a critical appraisal should be done before implementing its recommendations. \n \nThis situation, however, involves an ethical dilemma for scientific journals’ editors, who have to decide on the one hand if it is proper to publish methodologically poor studies in order to provide information as soon as possible so that clinics will be able to take decisions, but, on the other hand, if just because this studies might be considered for decision making, a higher methodological quality should be warrantied.