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Table 2 Respondents’ support of clinical trial data sharing, stratified by trialist and trial characteristics

From: Predictors of clinical trial data sharing: exploratory analysis of a cross-sectional survey

 

‘The clinical research community should promote and facilitate clinical trial data sharing’

 

Respondents

Agree (%)

Disagree (%)

P value

Overall

317

278 (88)

39 (12)

 

Trialist academic productivity (number of research articles published in past three years)

   

0.22

     1 to 10 articles

71

66 (93)

5 (7)

 

     11 to 25 articles

117

103 (88)

14 (12)

     >25 articles

129

109 (85)

20 (16)

Trialist geographic location

   

0.17*

     United States or Canada

167

141 (84)

26 (16)

 

     Western Europe

113

104 (92)

9 (8)

     Other

37

33 (89)

4 (11)

Trial funding source

   

0.07*

     Government

120

108 (90)

12 (10)

 

     Industry or mixed funding

152

127 (84)

25 (16)

     Other

45

43 (96)

2 (4)

Trial size

   

0.71

     ≤239 subjects

80

69 (86)

11 (14)

 

     240 to 2,016 subjects

158

141 (89)

17 (11)

     ≥2,017 subjects

79

68 (86)

11 (14)

Journal in which the trial was published

   

0.01*

     NEJM

113

92 (81)

21 (19)

 

     Lancet

70

61 (87)

9 (13)

     JAMA

43

36 (84)

7 (16)

     Annals of Internal Medicine

24

23 (96)

1 (4)

     The BMJ

53

52 (98)

1 (2)

     PLoS Medicine

14

14 (100)

0 (0)

  1. *Fisher exact test. JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association; NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine.