Data Sharing: An Ethical and Scientific Imperative

Sharing data produced from clinical trials has 2 principal purposes: verification of the original analysis and hypothesis generation. It has the potential to advance scientific discovery, improve clinical care, and increase knowledge gained from data collected in these trials. As such, data sharing...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2016-03, Vol.315 (12), p.1238-1240
Main Authors: Bauchner, Howard, Golub, Robert M, Fontanarosa, Phil B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical trials
Clinical Trials as Topic - ethics
Clinical Trials as Topic - standards
Data Anonymization - ethics
Data Anonymization - standards
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Humans
Information Dissemination - ethics
Information sharing
Publication Bias
Research Subjects
Social Responsibility
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Summary:Sharing data produced from clinical trials has 2 principal purposes: verification of the original analysis and hypothesis generation. It has the potential to advance scientific discovery, improve clinical care, and increase knowledge gained from data collected in these trials. As such, data sharing has become an ethical and scientific imperative. The data sharing process has generated controversy,1- 5 for example, about which data should be shared, with whom, and how quickly. However, there is limited information to help guide the discussion. Here, Bauchner et al comment on the study by Navar et al that details the experience of data sharing that has occurred in 3 clinical trial databases to which 14 pharmaceutical companies have contributed individual patient data from 3255 trials.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2016.2420