Mar 28, 2011
IQWiG’s employees honoured with the David Sackett Award
German EbM Network acknowledges commitment to more data transparency in drug studies
On 25 March 2011 in Berlin the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine (DNEbM) presented this year's David Sackett Award to the employees of the Drug Assessment Department of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). This award, which is valued at € 2000, has been presented annually since 2008. With the 2011 award the scientific network DNEbM acknowledged IQWiG's persistent and successful commitment to making all clinical trial results publicly accessible and thereby transparent.
As outlined in the explanation for the award, IQWiG's employees have contributed substantially to raising public awareness on the topic of unpublished and withheld study data, using various means such as scientific reports and journal articles, presentations and meetings, as well as press releases. The jury was especially impressed by the way in which "a scientifically-orientated organization sought public attention in order to fulfil its scientific and ethical obligations."
Also Peter Sawicki's achievement
"The fact that IQWiG's employees have now been honoured with the David Sackett Award is also an achievement of IQWiG's first director Peter Sawicki," says the current director Jürgen Windeler. "Without Sawicki's successful groundwork and also his constancy, specifically in disputes about unpublished study data, this award would not have been possible," stresses Windeler. Since 2008 the German EbM Network has presented the David Sackett Award annually for outstanding and sustainable work in the area of EbM and health care.
The Canadian medical doctor David Sackett is regarded as a pioneer of EbM, which originated in Anglo-American countries and is now being practised throughout the world. Sackett, currently living in Canada, founded the first institute for clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University in 1967, and later founded the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. He is the initiator and co-editor of the Journal "Evidence-based Medicine", author of more than 60 scientific textbooks and articles, and also initiator of training courses in EbM at Oxford University.
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