NEW YORK (REUTERS) - The scramble to research the novel coronavirus has exposed weaknesses in the vetting of healthcare data being supplied by a growing number of US firms, a flaw that forced two of the most respected medical journals to pull studies last week.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - The scramble to research the novel coronavirus has exposed weaknesses in the vetting of healthcare data being supplied by a growing number of US firms, a flaw that forced two of the most respected medical journals to pull studies last week.
"Whenever you don't know where data comes from, and precisely how it was managed, then the number of incorrect conclusions you can draw is large," said Dr Kenneth Mandl, director of the Computational Health Informatics Programme at Boston Children's Hospital. The retractions"are great examples of why science needs more of a 'In God We Trust, everyone else needs to show their data' approach," said Dr Ivan Oransky, vice president of editorial at Medscape and co-founder of the Retraction Watch blog.
The US Food and Drug Administration now allows data gathered outside of clinical trials to be considered in its reviews of new drugs, providing another boost to the healthcare analytics industry. A spokesman for Lancet publisher Elsevier said it will re-assess about 20 additional published articles that contain Surgisphere data.
While the NEJM and Lancet articles had external peer review, they relied on the authors to vouch for the data.
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