Journal editor calls for 'culture change' around clinical trial data

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Summary:

"The editor of one of the nation’s top medical journals called Tuesday for a 'culture change' in the scientific community about clinical trials: Instead of solely glorifying researchers who author papers, scientists should also bestow reverence upon those who generate high-quality data sets for others to analyze.

Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, said this was one of the main takeaways of a two-day summit, held Monday and Tuesday in Boston, which attracted 140 patients, data scientists, and researchers who conduct clinical trials. Thousands followed along via an online livestream.

The question of the day: What’s the right balance to strike between sharing data from those trials and keeping them private? The former might speed treatments and help patients. But some scientists have expressed some reticence to immediately share all their data, worrying that competitors will beat them to the punch of analyzing it.

NEJM has found itself in hot water before on this issue, when an editorial coauthored by Drazen raised the possibility of 'research parasites' who don’t put in the work to do studies, but just leech off others’ data. Drazen later clarified that he was describing the concerns of other researchers who conduct clinical trials

The Boston event brought out a diverse set of opinions."

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https://www.statnews.com/2017/04/04/clinical-trial-data-sharing/

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Date tagged:

04/05/2017, 22:22

Date published:

04/05/2017, 18:22