Obtaining Access to Data from Government-Sponsored Medical Research

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Increasingly, the federal government sponsors medical research to resolve major public health issues. Government sponsorship of such research can take many forms, such as grants to university departments or individual investigators, contracts with private research firms, or direct funding of research conducted by its own employees. Access to data supporting the results of such research may become extremely important to many different parties, often at odds with one another. Public health and regulatory agencies, as well as product-liability litigants and public interest groups, often need more data than are provided in published research papers in order to execute their responsibilities . . .