Views of Ethical Best Practices in Sharing Individual-Level Data from Medical and Public Health Research: A Systematic Scoping Review

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 225-238

  Bull, Susan ^a   Roberts, Nia ^a   Parker, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomedical research ethics; clinical research; data access; data release; data sharing; health policy; low income countries; middle income countries; privacy; research data; research governance; systematic review

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; COOPERATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTITUDE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 84955292030     PISSN: 15562646     EISSN: 15562654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1556264615594767     Document Type: Article

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