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.
Description: MRCT Center Faculty Director Dr. Barbara Bierer and Program Manager Sylvia Baedorf Kassis contributed to a published report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine “Health Literacy in Clinical Research: Practice and Impact – Proceedings of a Workshop.”
Description: Our collaboration with CDISC to make the MRCT Center Clinical Research Glossary available as a global standard is featured in the April edition of DIA’s Global Forum! Take a moment to read it and learn more about this wonderful development.
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.
