Letters
Authors should make their data available
BMJ 2001; 323 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1069/a (Published 03 November 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;323:1069
- Douglas G Altman (altman@icrf.icnet.uk), professor of statistics in medicine,
- Christopher Cates, general practitioner
- ICRF/NHS Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford OX3 7LF
- Bushey, Hertfordshire WD2 2NN
EDITOR—Hutchon discussed the desirability of publishing the raw data used in medical research articles, and Eysenbach and Sa have outlined some of the difficulties. 1 2 The least that should happen at the moment is that authors should be able to make their data available on a journal's website. One journal that already does this is Clinical Chemistry, which will include data supplements in the material sent …
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