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Blockchain’s potential to improve clinical trials—an essay by Leeza Osipenko

BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5561 (Published 03 October 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;367:l5561

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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

12 October 2019
Murar E Yeolekar
Professor & Head , Dept of Internal Medicine
K J Somaiya Medical College and Hospital, Sion Mumbai
Eastern Express Highway, Ayurvihar, Sion, Mumbai. 400022
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