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Vol 35(3), August 2009
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Sep 29, 2009 - 12:12 PM

Groves T. Managing UK research data for future use. BMJ 2009;338:b1252.
doi:10.1136/bmj.b1252
www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/338/mar25_1/b1252
The BMJ has recently joined a host of other journals in encouraging authors to make raw research data available to others. Authors are being asked to include a data sharing statement at the end of their original research articles. This will explain what additional data are available, to whom, and where they can be found. Sharing clinical research data has ethical implications for medical journals; maintaining patient confidentiality is a major challenge. A list of proposed solutions is given.


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