Surgical databases: Ethics in evolution

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 983-985

  Jones, James W ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; THORAX SURGERY;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 0036798184     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03876-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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