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Author: Jo Chapman, PhD (Aspire Scientific Ltd) Over two days last week, around 250 delegates and exhibitors braved sub-zero temperatures to attend the European meeting of the International Society for … Continue Reading Meeting report: Summary of Day 2 of the 2016 European ISMPP Meeting
Author: Jo Chapman, PhD (Aspire Scientific Ltd) Over two days last week, around 250 delegates and exhibitors braved sub-zero temperatures to attend the European meeting of the International Society for … Continue Reading Meeting report: Summary of Day 1 of the 2016 European ISMPP Meeting
Clinical trial data sharing is increasingly viewed as important and an ethical obligation. To help facilitate and expedite the process of clinical data sharing, the International Committee of Medical Journal … Continue Reading ICMJE propose plans to facilitate data sharing from clinical trials
While improvements in technology have made openness and transparency in scientific reporting more straight-forward, some researchers are still reticent to share data, material and analysis freely. Efforts to encourage openness … Continue Reading Encouraging openness and transparency in scientific reporting: Are you PRO?
The 2016 European meeting of the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) has just finished. Hopefully, the tweet stream below will be helpful in providing highlights of what was presented at … Continue Reading Want to know what the highlights were from the 2016 ISMPP European Meeting? See the #ISMPP tweet stream here
The distribution of clinical data is a hot topic at the moment but the sharing of individual participant data is a more sensitive issue. Towards the end of 2015 BMC … Continue Reading Guidelines on the sharing of individual participant data from publicly funded trials
In 2015, The Institute of Medicine published a book called “Sharing Clinical Trial Data; Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk”, which has recently been reviewed by Richard Lehman on a BioMed Central … Continue Reading Book: “Sharing Clinical Trial Data; Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk”
Videos from the recent Cochrane Colloquium are now available (see below). Presentations (within Plenaries I and II) include: The uneven future of evidence-based medicine (Ida Sim) Can too many systematic … Continue Reading [VIDEO] Plenaries from the recent Cochrane Colloquium
The BMJ this week published a re-analysis of infamous paroxetine trial – Study 329. The re-analysis found differing results, and came to different conclusions versus the original manuscript article. The … Continue Reading More negative headlines for Pharma highlighting the importance of transparency
Registration is now open for the 2016 European Meeting of ISMPP (International Society of Medical Publication Professionals). The meeting title is: Publication Planning in Practice: Overcoming Challenges in the Age … Continue Reading Registration is now open for the 2016 European Meeting of ISMPP (International Society of Medical Publication Professionals)
In 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) introduced mandatory trial registration guidelines and member journals require prospective registration of trials prior to patient enrolment as a condition … Continue Reading Evidence that industry may be better than academia at prospective trial registration, though improvements are required
The AllTrials initiative has had great success in raising awareness in Europe about the benefits of publishing the results of all clinical trials. Now AllTrials have launched an expansion of … Continue Reading AllTrials Campaign Launches in US
In an unprecedented move, a group of 85 asset managers and pension funds is teaming with a U.K. non-profit campaign (AllTrials campaign) to pressure pharmaceutical companies to disclose clinical trial data (i.e. get … Continue Reading Pharma company investors call for clinical trials transparency
In a recent article in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Ben Goldacre discusses the importance and need for improving the availability/publication of clinical trial data – particularly from the perspective … Continue Reading Fixing flaws in science must be professionalised
Authors of all clinical trials published by the BMJ must now agree to make individual patient data from the study available to other researchers upon reasonable request. Among major medical journals, … Continue Reading Should medical journals make researchers share data from clinical trials?
An Editorial has been published this week in The BMJ to mark the 10th anniversary of the landmark decision by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) to make … Continue Reading Trial registration: the single most valuable tool we have to ensure unbiased reporting of research studies