The Gift of Data: Medical Journals Back Public Data Disclosure as Prerequisite for Publishing - Daily News - TCTMD

" ... That moment of recognition came back to me this week with the news that the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors  (ICMJE) had announced a draft proposal of plans to require clinical trialists to share their data publically as a prerequisite for publishing trial results in their member journals. In other words: raw data, freely given. Announcement of the proposal was published simultaneously in 14 medical journals internationally including the Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, JAMA, Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine. Darren Taichman, MD, executive deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, is the lead author. Under the proposal, de-identified patient-level data would be made public according to an agreed upon plan within 6 months of the publication each trial’s main results. The plan for data-sharing would be a component of clinical trial registration. ClinicalTrials.gov has already added an element to its registration platform to collect data-sharing plans, Taichman et al note ..."