Leeza Osipenko senior lecturer in practice, London School of Economics and Political Science, and visiting fellow, Center for Global Development
Osipenko L.
Blockchain’s potential to improve clinical trials—an essay by Leeza Osipenko
BMJ 2019; 367 :l5561
doi:10.1136/bmj.l5561
Re: Blockchain’s potential to improve clinical trials—an essay by Leeza Osipenko
For too long, clinical trials have remained tedious, dreary and exhausting and protracted, demanding all the necessary rigour to generate reliable extrapolable evidence; further the data must be 'robust ' and the trial must have 'power '. The queries, objections and 'comments ' that could be invited from the regulatory authority could turn out to be the last straw. Under the circumstances, Blockchain 's potential is to be exploited fully.
Dr Murar E Yeolekar, Mumbai.
Competing interests: No competing interests