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Pragmatic Clinical Trials

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Rethinking Clinical Trials

A Living Textbook of Pragmatic Clinical Trials

  • Design
    • What is a Pragmatic Clinical Trial?
    • Decentralized Pragmatic Clinical Trials
    • Developing a Compelling Grant Application
    • Experimental Designs and Randomization Schemes
    • Endpoints and Outcomes
    • Analysis Plan
    • Using Electronic Health Record Data
    • Building Partnerships and Teams to Ensure a Successful Trial
    • Intervention Delivery and Complexity
    • Patient Engagement
  • Data, Tools & Conduct
    • Assessing Feasibility
    • Acquiring Real-World Data
    • Assessing Fitness-for-Use of Real-World Data
    • Study Startup
    • Participant Recruitment
    • Monitoring Intervention Fidelity and Adaptations
    • Patient-Reported Outcomes
    • Clinical Decision Support
    • Mobile Health
    • Electronic Health Records–Based Phenotyping
    • Navigating the Unknown
  • Dissemination & Implementation
    • Data Sharing and Embedded Research
    • Dissemination Approaches for Different Audiences
    • Implementation
    • End-of-Trial Decision-Making
  • Ethics & Regulatory
    • Privacy Considerations
    • Identifying Those Engaged in Research
    • Collateral Findings
    • Consent, Disclosure, and Non-Disclosure
    • Data and Safety Monitoring
    • Ethical Considerations of Data Sharing in Pragmatic Clinical Trials
    • Ethics for AI and ML
    • IRB Responsibilities and Procedures

Introduction

CHAPTER SECTIONS

Ethical Considerations of Data Sharing in Pragmatic Clinical Trials


Section 1

Introduction

Expand Contributors

Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBe

Stephanie Morain, PhD, MPH

Contributing Editor

Karen Staman, MS

The scientific motivations for data sharing are clear: health information can enable scientific discovery, as well as enhance transparency and reproducibility in trial results. However, the ethical considerations of sharing data from embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) are less well defined, especially when data are collected with a waiver or alteration of informed consent, as is often the case in ePCTs. Therefore, in this chapter, we describe the human subjects research regulations that may impact such data sharing and examine the intersection of enabling critical ePCT research, and respecting the interests of patients who become ePCT participants.

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SECTIONS

CHAPTER SECTIONS

sections

  1. Introduction
  2. The Human Subjects Research Regulations and Data Sharing
  3. Ongoing Challenges for Respecting the Autonomy of Participants and Sharing Data From PCTs
  4. Respect for Persons and Data Sharing

Resources

The chapter Data Sharing and Embedded Research explores specific challenges of sharing data from embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) where data is derived from health system records.

Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing


Version History

Published on April 3, 2023

current section :

Introduction

  1. Introduction
  2. The Human Subjects Research Regulations and Data Sharing
  3. Ongoing Challenges for Respecting the Autonomy of Participants and Sharing Data From PCTs
  4. Respect for Persons and Data Sharing

Citation:

Ethical Considerations of Data Sharing in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Introduction. In: Rethinking Clinical Trials: A Living Textbook of Pragmatic Clinical Trials. Bethesda, MD: NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory. Available at: https://rethinkingclinicaltrials.org/chapters/ethics-and-regulatory/ethical-considerations-of-data-sharing-in-pragmatic-clinical-trials/introduction-to-ethical-considerations-of-data/. Updated December 3, 2025. DOI: 10.28929/214.

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