Evaluation of repositories for sharing individual-participant data from clinical studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data repositories have the potential to play an important role in the effective and safe sharing of individual-participant data (IPD) from clinical studies. We analysed the current landscape of data repositories to create a detailed description of available repositories and assess their suitability for hosting data from clinical studies, from the perspective of the clinical researcher.

Methods

We assessed repositories that enable storage, sharing, discoverability, re-use of the IPD and associated documents from clinical studies using a pre-defined set of 34 items and publicly available information from April to June 2018. For this purpose, we developed an indicator set to capture the maturity of the repositories' procedures and their suitability for the hosting of

SUBMITTER: Banzi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420770 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature