Data sharing in a humanitarian organization: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières.
editorial · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24339750.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001562 and PMC identifier 3858219.
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Abstract
Unni Karunakara and colleagues discuss how Médecins Sans Frontières decided to adopt a data sharing policy for routinely collected clinical and research data in humanitarian settings and its aspirations to create a truly open data set with the first step being managed access. <i>Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary</i>
Medical subject headings
- Altruism
- Information Dissemination