Overcoming obstacles in obtaining individual participant data for meta‐analysis

Individual participant data (IPD) is the backbone of scientific inquiry and important to a meta‐analysis for a variety of reasons. It is therefore important to be able to access IPD, and yet, obstacles persist that make it difficult for meta‐analysts, as well as interested primary study analysts, to obtain it. In this paper, we discuss the barriers to obtaining IPD via online repositories or contacting primary study authors and provide an...