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ArticleLondon journal of primary care2013

Sharing electronic records: separating out the signals from ethical white noise.

Andrew Papanikitas

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Article in London journal of primary care, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Andrew PapanikitasEthics and Philosophy Editor, London Journal of Primary Care ; Portfolio GP, London and Bucks; Sessional Tutor/Facilitator in Ethics, Interprofessional Education, and Clinical Communication, Kings College London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of shared electronic records has been galvanised by initiatives to improve the information technology infrastructure of healthcare and by fragmentation of healthcare provision. This report uses a public discussion by the RCGP Ethics Committee, Patient Participation Group and the Informatics Group to review key issues relating to shared electronic healthcare records. These records may be a social necessity, and ethical and legal safeguards may allay some public and professional anxiety about their appropriate use. Many of the specific ethical concerns, such as confidentiality of healthcare information, are not new but how these concerns arise in context may be. Function creep was a key concern in the discussion.

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electronic recordsethicsinformation technology

Identifiers

PMID25949702
PMCPMC3960642

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