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Data sharing in the context of community-engaged research partnerships

Publication

Published on: May, 2023

Published inSocial Science & Medicine

Description: As data sharing is expanded in the context of greater community engagement in research, we must ask to whom do benefits of data sharing accrue and to whom do benefits not accrue? In an era of growing efforts to engage diverse communities in research, the impact of data sharing for all research participants and the communities that they represent requires the reassessment of the principles of data sharing, incorporating principles of community-engaged research. This article outlines these considerations and proposes new models of benefit sharing.

Disclosure of Possible Trial Termination to Participants of Interventional Clinical Trials

Publication

Published on: April 4, 2023

Published in: JAMA

Trial termination (the decision to end a trial earlier than planned) has been reported in 17.9% of cardiovascular trials and 16.0% of surgical trials.1,2 Although some trials are terminated for scientific reasons due to safety, efficacy, or futility, many trials are terminated due to inadequate participant enrollment or other nonscientific reasons.

Diagnostic Testing for COVID-19: Considering False Positive and False Negative Results by Deborah A. Zarin, MD, MRCT Center Program Director and Joseph Lau, MD

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Published on: April, 2020

Diagnostic tests for COVID-19 are central to most proposed plans for relaxing physical distancing and related policies. The following work by Deborah A. Zarin, MD MRCT Center Program Director and Joseph Lau, MD ,Professor Emeritus of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Brown University School of Public Health serves as a reminder about what we know and don’t know about these tests, how frequently they might produce inaccurate results, and how these inaccuracies might affect their utility in different potential scenarios.