Using patient-identifiable data for observational research and audit.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. "Let's get the best quality research we can": public awareness and acceptance of consent to use existing data in health research: a systematic review and qualitative study.BMC medical research methodology · 2013
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2. Towards trust-based governance of health data research.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2023
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3. Registration bias in a clinical quality register.Endoscopy international open · 2019
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4. Checking Questionable Entry of Personally Identifiable Information Encrypted by One-Way Hash Transformation.JMIR medical informatics · 2017
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5. Waiver of consent in noninterventional, observational emergency research: the PROMMTT experience.The journal of trauma and acute care surgery · 2013
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6. Assessing the impact of the requirement for explicit consent in a hospital-based stroke study.QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians · 2008
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7. Selection bias resulting from the requirement for prior consent in observational research: a community cohort of people with ischaemic heart disease.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2007
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8. Legal and ethical considerations in processing patient-identifiable data without patient consent: lessons learnt from developing a disease register.Journal of medical ethics · 2007
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9. Data protection and the promotion of health research.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2007
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10. Bias from requiring explicit consent from all participants in observational research: prospective, population based study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005
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11. Research ethics committees in the UK--the pressure is now on research and development departments.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2005
    Review
12. Experiences of the BMJ ethics committee.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
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13. Obstacles to conducting epidemiological research in the UK general population.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
    Review
14. Balancing benefits and harms: the example of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
    Review
15. Presence of bacteriuria caused by trimethoprim resistant bacteria in patients prescribed antibiotics: multilevel model with practice and individual patient data.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
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16. Public attitudes towards the use of primary care patient record data in medical research without consent: a qualitative study.Journal of medical ethics · 2004
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17. When does quality improvement count as research? Human subject protection and theories of knowledge.Quality & safety in health care · 2004
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18. The requirement for prior consent to participate on survey response rates: a population-based survey in Grampian.BMC health services research · 2003
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19. A proposed architecture and method of operation for improving the protection of privacy and confidentiality in disease registers.BMC medical research methodology · 2003
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20. The use of medical records in research: what do patients want?The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2003
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Corrections and comments

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  Using patient identifiable data without consent. Integrity of communicable disease surveillance is important patient care.2001
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  Using patient identifiable data without consent. Obtaining individual consent may hinder studies.2001
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  Using patient identifiable data without consent. Argument for consent may invalidate research and stigmatise some patients.2001
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  GMC's guidance may inhibit research.2001

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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