'Nothing is really safe': A focus group study on the processes of anonymizing and sharing of health data for research purposes

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1140-1146

  Haddow, Gill ^a   Bruce, Ann ^a   Sathanandam, Shiva ^b   Wyatt, Jeremy C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anonymized data; consent; lay views; warehouse model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRUST;

AGED; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; STATE MEDICINE; TRUST;

EID: 80755168316     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01488.x     Document Type: Article

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