• Thomas Heldt reminds us that in the US this kind of research falls under the of 1996, which regulates use and disclosure of “protected health information”. His work on hospital-archived data proceeds only after all protected information has been removed, so that researchers cannot identify patients from the records.
Letter: Editor's reply to "Confidentiality is vital in medicine"
Published 21 October 2015
Issue no. 3044 published 24 October 2015
