Box.

Recommendations from Chan et al. for reducing inaccessible research in The Lancet’s Increasing Value, Reducing Waste series [7]

1. Institutions and funders should adopt performance metrics that recognise full dissemination of research and reuse of original datasets by external researchers

2. Investigators, funders, sponsors, regulators, research ethics committees, and journals should systematically develop and adopt standards for the content of study protocols and full study reports, and for data sharing practices

3. Funders, sponsors, regulators, research ethics committees, journals, and legislators should endorse and enforce study registration policies, wide availability of full study information, and sharing of participant-level data for all health research