Dynamic Consent: A Possible Solution to Improve Patient Confidence and Trust in How Electronic Patient Records Are Used in Medical Research

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Williams, Hawys ^a   Spencer, Karen ^a   Sanders, Caroline ^a   Lund, David ^b   Whitley, Edgar A ^c   Kaye, Jane ^a,d   Dixon, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HW COMMUNICATIONS LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care.data; Confidentiality; Data linkage; Dynamic consent; Electronic patient record (epr); Governance; Medical research; Nhs; Privacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973387103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.3525     Document Type: Review

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