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. 2010 Jan 28:340:c181.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.c181.

Preparing raw clinical data for publication: guidance for journal editors, authors, and peer reviewers

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz  1 , Melissa L Norton, Andrew J Vickers, Douglas G Altman
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Preparing raw clinical data for publication: guidance for journal editors, authors, and peer reviewers

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Many peer reviewed journals now require authors to be prepared to share their raw, unprocessed data with other scientists or state the availability of raw data in published articles, but little information on how such data should be prepared for sharing has emerged. Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and colleagues propose a minimum standard for de-identifying datasets to ensure patient privacy when sharing clinical research data

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare that all authors had: (1) No financial support for the submitted work from anyone other than their employer; (2) IH and MN are employees of BioMed Central, the open access publisher, and receive fixed salaries, but work on this manuscript has not been at the urging of BioMed Central; (3) No spouses, partners, or children with relationships with commercial entities that might have an interest in the submitted work; (4) AJV is an associate editor for the BioMed Central journal Trials, which hopes to encourage greater prevalence of raw clinical data sharing and publication; DGA is coeditor-in-chief of Trials. All authors are supporters of data sharing and release from all types of research.

Comment in

  • BMJ policy on data sharing.
    Groves T. Groves T. BMJ. 2010 Jan 28;340:c564. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c564. BMJ. 2010. PMID: 20110310 No abstract available.

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