The impact of consent on observational research: a comparison of outcomes from consenters and non consenters to an observational study
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Public health benefits from research often rely on the use of data from personal medical records. When neither patient consent nor anonymisation is possible, the case for accessing such records for research purposes depends on an ass...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-04-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/8/15 |