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- Title
Physician privacy concerns when disclosing patient data for public health purposes during a pandemic influenza outbreak.
- Authors
El Emam, Khaled; Mercer, Jay; Moreau, Katherine; Grava-Gubins, Inese; Buckeridge, David; Jonker, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Privacy concerns by providers have been a barrier to disclosing patient information for public health purposes. This is the case even for mandated notifiable disease reporting. In the context of a pandemic it has been argued that the public good should supersede an individual's right to privacy. The precise nature of these provider privacy concerns, and whether they are diluted in the context of a pandemic are not known. Our objective was to understand the privacy barriers which could potentially influence family physicians' reporting of patient-level surveillance data to public health agencies during the Fall 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza outbreak.
- Publication
BMC public health, 2011, Vol 11, p454
- ISSN
1471-2458
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2458-11-454