A “datathon” model to support cross-disciplinary collaboration

Jerome Aboab, Leo Celi, Peter Charlton, Mengling Feng, Mohammad Ghassemi, Dominic Marshall, Louis Mayaud, Tristan Naumann, Ned McCague, Kenneth Paik, Tom Pollard, Matthieu Resche-Rigon, Justin Salciccioli, David Stone

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    Abstract

    In recent years, there has been a growing focus on the unreliability of published biomedical and clinical research. To introduce effective new scientific contributors to the culture of health care, we propose a “datathon” or “hackathon” model in which participants with disparate, but potentially synergistic and complementary, knowledge and skills effectively combine to address questions faced by clinicians. The continuous peer review intrinsically provided by follow-up datathons, which take up prior uncompleted projects, might produce more reliable research, either by providing a different perspective on the study design and methodology or by replication of prior analyses.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)333ps8
    Number of pages5
    JournalScience Translational Medicine
    Volume8
    Issue number333
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 6 Apr 2016

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