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ArticleBioethics2025

The Ethics of Informed Consent for Data Registries: Moving Beyond Moral Minimalism to the High Ground.

George Rugare Chingarande

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Article in Bioethics, 2025. 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

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.

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.

George Rugare ChingarandeDivision of Medical Ethics and Law, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9456-9876

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a rapid increase in disease registries all over the world, propelled by innovations in electronic health records and computer technologies. Unlike the developed world, where many registries are well established, many disease registries in the developing world are still in their incipient stage. Establishment of disease registries is blighted by many ethical concerns. These include but are not limited to data capture and data transfer happening without explicit patient consent; data sharing with third parties for various purposes including research, policy making and advocacy; and retrospective consent waiver. This is compounded by the lack of ethical guidelines and international best practices. This paper presents an ethical analysis of the ethics of informed consent for data registries.

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Information DisseminationInformed ConsentRegistriesElectronic Health RecordsEthical AnalysisHumansconsent waiverdata registriesethical maximalisminformed consentretroactive consent waiver

Identifiers

PMID40501000
PMCPMC12392241

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