Doctors could prescribe drugs more accurately — if they could get the data

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-07-21

Summary:

"...Pharmaceutical companies have recently begun releasing data like this to researchers under a movement called Open Science or Open Data, but the process is slow and seemingly designed to frustrate. You first submit a request that makes a case for the data. Then you wait. And wait. And wait some more. The request goes through a regulatory review process and negotiations between your university and the pharmaceutical company before it’s given a thumbs up or down. Third-party organizations like the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) project, launched in 2011, have become additional platforms to access clinical trial data. As groundbreaking as this platform has been, it has miles to go. Currently, only a very small number — 31 — of drugs have clinical trial data available on YODA. To put this in context, more than 200 drugs have been approved by the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research since 2013. In short, there are roadblocks every step of the way for getting access to the data that doctors like us need to move from population-focused medicine, which relies on the average estimate of benefits, to precision medicine, which aims to use patients’ genes and traits to match them with drugs that will benefit them. We need more information, we need it for more medicines, and we need to make it simpler for doctors and researchers to access. Doing so will allow us to tailor therapies for our patients...."

Link:

https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/20/doctors-prescribing-clinical-trial-data/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.obstacles oa.access oa.pharma oa.green oa.open_science oa.stem oa.medicine oa.repositories

Date tagged:

07/21/2018, 18:00

Date published:

07/21/2018, 14:00