NEJM Editor Flip Flops On Data Sharing After Social Media Firestorm

After a firestorm of criticism on social media over his editorial comments,  Jeffrey Drazen, the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, is trying to quiet a growing controversy by modifying his position regarding shared data. The firestorm was ignited by an editorial on data sharing in last week’s NEJM. Although highly supportive of…

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Buried Clinical Trial Data: The Dam Is About to Burst

Two important new developments may mean that many more researchers will soon be able to access and analyze data from many more clinical trials. … a preliminary report from the prestigious Institute of Medicine lends strong support to the open data movement. The IOM report states that investigators should be required to establish a data-sharing plan at the…

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