Sharing Clinical Trial Data: A Proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors

Darren B Taichman¹ , Joyce Backus² , Christopher Baethge³ , Howard Bauchner⁴ , Peter W de Leeuw⁵ , Jeffrey M Drazen⁶ , John Fletcher⁷ , Frank A Frizelle⁸ , Trish Groves⁹ , Abraham Haileamlak¹⁰ , Astrid James¹¹ , Christine Laine¹² , Larry Peiperl¹³ , Anja Pinborg¹⁴ , Peush Sahni¹⁵ , Sinan Wu¹⁶

¹ Secretary, ICMJE, Executive Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, 190 N Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
² MSLS, Representative and Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine,
³ Chief Scientific Editor, Deutsches �rzteblatt (German Medical Journal),
⁴ Editor-in-Chief, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) and the JAMA Network,
⁵ Editor-in-Chief, Nederlands Tijdschriftvoor Geneeskunde (The Dutch Medical Journal),
⁶ Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine,
⁷ Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Medical Association Journal,
⁸ Editor-in-Chief, New Zealand Medical Journal,
⁹ Head of Research, British Medical Journal,
¹⁰ Editor-in-Chief, Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences,
¹¹ Deputy Editor, The Lancet,
¹² Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine,
¹³ Chief Editor, PLOS Medicine,
¹⁴ Scientific Editor-in-Chief, Ugeskrift for Laeger (Danish Medical Journal),
¹⁵ Representative and Past President, World Association of Medical Editors,
¹⁶ Representative, Chinese Medical Journal,

Corresponding Author:
Darren B Taichman
Secretary, ICMJE, Executive Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, 190 N Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106
USA
dtaichman@acponline.org