Nugent, Timothy and Upton, David and Cimpoesu, Mihai (2016) Improving data transparency in clinical trials using blockchain smart contracts. All trials matter. (Submitted)
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Abstract
The scientific credibility of findings from clinical trials can be undermined by a range of problems including missing data, endpoint switching, data dredging, and selective publication. Together, these issues have contributed to systematically distorted perceptions regarding the benefits and risks of treatments. While these issues have been well documented and widely discussed within the profession, legislative intervention has seen limited success. Recently, a method was described for using a blockchain to prove the existence of documents describing pre-specified endpoints in clinical trials. Here, we extend the idea by using smart contracts - code, and data, that resides at a specific address in a blockchain, and whose execution is cryptographically validated by the network - to demonstrate how trust in clinical trials can be enforced and data manipulation eliminated. We show that blockchain smart contracts provide a novel technological solution to the data manipulation problem, by acting as trusted administrators and providing an immutable record of trial history.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Main Topics > Blockchain Projects > BloSSom 2019 Main Topics > Smart Contracts |
| Divisions: | Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email richard.dabels@uni-rostock.de |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2019 16:33 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2019 16:33 |
| URI: | http://blossom.informatik.uni-rostock.de/id/eprint/59 |
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