CardioBrief: NEJM Editor Now Supports Data Sharing | Medpage Today

After a firestorm of criticism on social media over his editorial comments, Jeffrey Drazen, MD, 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 one study that utilized data sharing, the editorial contained two paragraphs that provoked many readers. "Many of us who have actually conducted clinical research, managed clinical studies and data collection and analysis, and curated data sets have concerns about the details [of data sharing]," Drazen and co-author, deputy NEJM editor Dan Longo, wrote. Their "first concern" was "that someone not involved in the generation and collection of the data may not understand the choices made in defining the parameters."