Critical elements to improve future individual patient data analyses
| 1. | Change our mind-set: to openly share data is a win-win situation |
| 2. | Collect and report minimum core outcome trial data following standards for conditions of interest |
| 3. | Store annotated data for both academic and industry sponsored trials in open access repositories |
| 4. | Harmonise ethics and legal issues for data-access and reuse |
| 5. | Provide funding and guarantees for sustainable open data repositories |