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The Use of Medical Records in Research: What Do Patients Want?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Nancy E. Kass ,
Marvin R. Natowicz ,
Sara Chandros Hull ,
Ruth R. Faden ,
Laura Plantinga ,
Lawrence O. Gostin  and
Julia Slutsman
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In the past ten years, there has been growing interest in and concern about protecting the privacy of personal medical information. Insofar as medical records increasingly are stored electronically, and electronic information can be shared easily and widely, there have been legislative efforts as well as scholarly analyses calling for greater privacy protections to ensure that patients can feel safe disclosing personal information to their health-care providers. At the same time, the volume of biomedical research conducted in this country continues to grow. The budget of the National Institutes of Health, for example, was $20,298 million in 2001, having more than doubled from a budget of $9,218 million 10 years before. This growing body of research includes increased efforts to use stored medical records as a source of data for health services, epidemiologic, and clinical studies.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , Fall 2003 , pp. 429 - 433
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2003

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