North American regulatory agencies can and should make clinical trial data publicly available

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud) and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Persaud), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research (Doshi), School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md. nav.persaud@utoronto.ca.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud) and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Persaud), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research (Doshi), School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.

Nav Persaud et al. CMAJ. 2016.

. 2016 Feb 2;188(2):96-97.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.150679. Epub 2015 Oct 13.

¹ Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud) and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Persaud), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research (Doshi), School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md. nav.persaud@utoronto.ca.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud) and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute (Persaud), St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family and Community Medicine (Persaud), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research (Doshi), School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.

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