–Doctors who got famous for doing clinical trials resist changes to the clinical trial system. It should probably come as no surprise that hundreds of clinical trial investigators whose positions and livelihoods depend largely on the existing clinical trial system have expressed great reluctance and annoyance at a proposal that could radically shake up that system. As…
Top Clinical Investigators Seek To Dampen Impact Of Data Sharing
August 3, 2016 by 3 Comments
Despite earlier concerns by its editors about “data parasites,” the New England Journal of Medicine has now published 4 articles offering support in some form for data sharing. But two of the articles— written by many of the most prominent clinical trial researchers in the United States and Canada— express grave concerns about data sharing…
Editors Deliver Major Victory To Open Data Movement
January 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The open data movement has gained its biggest victory yet. In an editorial published simultaneously in 14 major medical journals today, The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) delivered a full-throated endorsement, in both actions as well as words, of data sharing by clinical researchers. Here is the core of the ICMJE proposal: As…
Buried Clinical Trial Data: The Dam Is About to Burst
January 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
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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