Patients want their consent sought for use of personal information
Patients are willing to allow personal information from their medical records
to be used for research purposes but want tobe consulted first.
Willison and colleagues (p
373) investigatedthe concerns of Canadian patients whose doctors
used electronicmedical records. Three quarters of those surveyed
wanted the chanceto consent before their deidentified data were used
for research.This presents logistical challenges that call for new
approachesto consent, taking into account the varying needs of the
publicand the evolving uses of individuals' information in a broadercontext.
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