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The present study focuses on the possible use of the emerging technology of blockchain in ensuring data management security in clinical trials. With the determination of the chief researchers and clinical investigations becoming more and more complex and international, achieving data quality and integrity, transparency, and legal compliance becomes imperative. By offering a distributed and immutable time-stamped ledger, issues of data revisions, selective data release, and the usually time-consuming issue of compliance auditing are well addressed. With this technology, it is possible to conduct surveillance of multi-center studies without compromising the confidentiality of patients while allowing the researchers to have unbiased information. When it comes to internal accountability, the use of the blockchain will create a situation whereby no alteration of the documents will take place. Thus, regulatory oversight is improved with the engagement of these parties. In addition, it makes sure that the need for bias in the reporting of outcomes is avoided in all trials and all results reported whether positive or negative. In order to address clinical trial data management and clinical trial outcomes’ validity and reliability, this review provides reputation management through digital ledger technology in the real world.

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Keywords: Blockchain ; transparency ; decentralization ; clinical trials ; smart contracts ; data integrity
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