Availability of Statistical Code From Studies Using Medicare Data in General Medical Journals

JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Jun 1;180(6):905-907. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.0671.

Jennie DeBlanc¹, Bradley Kay², Jessica Lehrich³, Neil Kamdar⁴, Thomas S Valley^{4

5}, John Z Ayanian^{4

6}, Brahmajee K Nallamothu^{3

4}

¹ University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
² Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
⁴ Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
⁶ Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.

Abstract

This study assesses the availability of statistical code from research articles using Medicare data published in leading general medical journals.