W. Dale Dauphinee & Richard Frecker.
Medical Education
September 2005, Vol. 39, Issue #9, pg. 877-879.
Review by: Linda Heun, Ph.D. <lheun@aacom.org>
The authors discuss the ethics and privacy issues related to the use of routinely collected educational data for medical education research. They conclude with the following recommendations for researchers:
- store data in segregated files so names and demographic data is not linked with scores or measures
- data should be used only for the single intended purpose; then the specifically created file must be destroyed
- ethics committees, even at multiple sites, should review all studies if it is interdisciplinary or multi-centered study
- use de-identifying techniques to protect all concerned
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