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Ethics, Privacy, and Legal Issues (556) Digital Health Reviews (1562) Secondary Use of Clinical Data for Research and Surveillance (424)

Published on in Vol 21, No 5 (2019): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/13484, first published .
Use and Understanding of Anonymization and De-Identification in the Biomedical Literature: Scoping Review

Use and Understanding of Anonymization and De-Identification in the Biomedical Literature: Scoping Review

Use and Understanding of Anonymization and De-Identification in the Biomedical Literature: Scoping Review

Authors of this article:

Raphaël Chevrier1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Vasiliki Foufi1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Arnaud Robert1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Christian Lovis1, 2 Author Orcid Image
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