It is becoming more publicised that hidden clinical trial data can undermine a doctor's ability to prescribe with confidence. A whole range of widely used drugs across all fields of medicine have been represented as safer and more effective than they are, endangering people’s lives and wasting public money.
As of January 2013, the British Medical Journal no longer publishes any trial of drugs or devices where the authors do not commit to making the relevant anonymous patient level data available, upon reasonable request.
The new BMJ Open Data page documents some of BMJ's past coverage of adverse outcomes associated with hidden clinical trial date and highlights the continuing extent of the problem as shown in the hidden data special issue, published in 2012.
BMJ Open Data
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