It is time for open access in clinical care

Edy Kim

doi:10.7554/eLife.77184

It is time for open access in clinical care

Elife. 2022 Jan 28:11:e77184. doi: 10.7554/eLife.77184.

Author

Edy Kim^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, United States.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.

Abstract

A healthcare center widely sharing its internal guidelines on how to treat COVID-19 patients "just wasn't done." As the pandemic raged at a Boston hospital, the next generation of clinical leaders pushed for change.

Keywords: COVID-19; clinical guidelines; medicine; open access; research culture; sparks of change.

MeSH terms

Access to Information* / ethics
Access to Information* / psychology
Boston
COVID-19 / therapy*
Laboratories, Hospital / standards*
Leadership*