The drug industry’s data integrity problem

As emphasis grows on managing data in pharmaceutical labs and plants—collecting and storing it, sharing it, mining it for pertinence—a basic question often goes unanswered: Is the data any good?

The quality and completeness of data associated with making drugs are, however, huge concerns at agencies such as the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. And drug companies are being forced to pay attention to data in response to a sharp increase in the number . . .