Physician privacy concerns when disclosing patient data for public health purposes during a pandemic influenza outbreak

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  El Emam, Khaled ^a,b   Mercer, Jay ^c   Moreau, Katherine ^a   Grava Gubins, Inese ^d   Buckeridge, David ^e,f   Jonker, Elizabeth ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d McGill University ^*  (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 79958039212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-454     Document Type: Article

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