Ethical considerations in implementation research: A scoping review of key principles, unintended consequences, and emerging ethical guidance

Authors

• Emmanuel K Tetteh, Washington University in St. Louis
• Nwaliweaku Anidi, Washington University in St. Louis
• Gifty Aboagye-Mensah, Washington University in St. Louis
• Michelle Doering, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Elvin H Geng, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Byron J Powell, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Mark D Huffman, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Alison L Antes, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Journal

Implementation Science Communications

Publication Date

12-30-2025

Volume

7

Issue

1

First Page

33

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1186/s43058-025-00845-3

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Tetteh, E.K., Anidi, N., Aboagye-Mensah, G. et al. Ethical considerations in implementation research: a scoping review of key principles, unintended consequences, and emerging ethical guidance. Implement Sci Commun 7, 33 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-025-00845-3 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

Tetteh, Emmanuel K; Anidi, Nwaliweaku; Aboagye-Mensah, Gifty; Doering, Michelle; Geng, Elvin H; Powell, Byron J; Huffman, Mark D; and Antes, Alison L, "Ethical considerations in implementation research: A scoping review of key principles, unintended consequences, and emerging ethical guidance." Implementation Science Communications. 7, 1. 33 (2025).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/6806

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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