Privacy, public safety, and medical research.
The increasing storage of vast amounts of information on computers and the rapidly increasing size of the databases stored on-line has the population and even many politicians worried about invasion of privacy. This paper examines some possible ways in which privacy may be invaded by the use of medical databases particularly during analysis and publication of results. The current literature is examined to reveal current practices.
Peterson
Margaret G E
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Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th St, New York 10021, USA. petersonm@hss.edu
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards