scholarly journals AB192. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018—attitudes and expectations of patients and doctors relating to data protection and clinical research

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. AB192-AB192
Author(s):  
John Phineas O’Donnell ◽  
Peter McAnena ◽  
Matt Davey ◽  
Aoife Lowery ◽  
Michael Kerin

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Carlos Meneses-Oliveira

Some clinicians feel that Ethics Committees act as a blockade to observational clinical studies. In the case of retrospective studies some have tried to solve this problem by reducing this sensitive data to simple administrative data in the hands of the government. Others see the new European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (European Union) as being more liberal than the Portuguese Law nº 21/2014, April 16th (Clinical Research Law). Both solutions presume participant consent from his / her silence, even if nobody truly tried to specifically inform him / her. Such views do collide with the guarantees of protection of patient’s ethical rights. In this article we propose an ethical alternative to those positions.





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