UK publicly funded Clinical Trials Units supported a controlled access approach to share individual participant data but highlighted concerns

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 17-25

  Hopkins, Carolyn ^a   Sydes, Matthew ^b   Murray, Gordon ^c   Woolfall, Kerry ^d   Clarke, Mike ^e   Williamson, Paula ^a   Tudur Smith, Catrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Belfast and North West Hub for Trials Methodology Research   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Clinical trial unit; Data sharing; Individual participant data; IPD; Publicly funded

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA ANALYSIS; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; CONFIDENTIALITY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFIDENTIALITY; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84957427190     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.07.002     Document Type: Article

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