Anonymising and sharing individual patient data

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Emam, Khaled El ^a,b   Rodgers, Sam ^c   Malin, Bradley ^d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Earls Court Health and Wellbeing Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; QUALITY CONTROL; CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; EUROPEAN UNION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL RECORDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926052081     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h1139     Document Type: Article

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