Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial board
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- 25 Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects
- 26 The Belmont Report: ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research
- 27 ICH Good Clinical Practice Guideline
- 28 Governance arrangements for NHS research ethics committees
- 29 The research governance framework for health and social care
- 30 EU Clinical Directive 2001/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations, and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use
- 31 European Convention on human rights and biomedicine (ETS 164) and additional protocol on the prohibition of cloning human beings
- 32 Good research practice
- 33 Research: the role and responsibilities of doctors
- 34 Guidelines for company-sponsored safety assessment of marketed medicines (SAMM)
- 35 Guidelines for medical experiments in non-patient human volunteers
- 36 Facilities for non-patient volunteer studies
- 37 Multi-centre research in the NHS – the process of ethical review when there is no local researcher
- 38 Medical devices regulations and research ethics committees
- 39 NHS indemnity – arrangements for clinical negligence claims in the NHS
- 40 Clinical trial compensation guidelines
- 41 Research ethics: guidance for nurses involved in research or any investigative project involving human subjects
- 42 Ethical principles for conducting research with human participants
- 43 Statement of ethical practice
- 44 Human tissue and biological samples for use in research
- 45 Transitional guidelines to facilitate changes in procedures for handling ‘surplus’ and archival material from human biological samples
- 46 Code of practice on the use of fetuses and fetal material in research and treatment (extracts from the Polkinghorne Report)
- 47 Guidance on the supply of fetal tissue for research, diagnosis and therapy
- 48 Guidance on making proposals to conduct gene therapy research on human subjects (seventh annual report – section 1)
- 49 Report on the potential use of gene therapy in utero
- 50 Human fertilisation and embryology authority – code of practice (extracts)
- 51 Guidelines for researchers – patient information sheet and consent form
- 52 ABPI Guidance note – patient information and consents for clinical trials
- 53 The protection and use of patient information (HSG(96)18/LASSL(96)5)
- 54 The Caldicott Report on the review of patient-identifiable information – executive summary December 1997
- 55 Personal information in medical research
- 56 Use and disclosure of medical data – guidance on the Application of the Data Protection Act, 1998, May 2002
- 57 Guidelines for the ethical conduct of medical research involving children
- 58 Clinical investigation of medicinal products in the paediatric population
- 59 Guidelines for researchers and for ethics committees on psychiatric research involving human participants – executive summary
- 60 The ethical conduct of research on the mentally incapacitated
- 61 Volunteering for research into dementia Alzheimer's Society
- 62 Knowledge to care: research and development in hospice and specialist palliative care – executive summary
- 63 NUS guidelines for student participation in medical experiments and guidance for students considering participation in medical drug trials
- 64 Ethical considerations in HIV preventive vaccine research
- 65 2002 international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects
- 66 1991 international guidelines for ethical review of epidemiological studies
- 67 Operational guidelines for ethics committees that review biomedical research
- 68 Registration of an institutional review board (IRB) or independent ethics committee (IEC)
- 69 International guidelines on bioethics (informal listing of selected international codes, declarations, guidelines etc. on medical ethics/bioethics/health care ethics/human rights aspects of health)
- Index
55 - Personal information in medical research
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
Edited by
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial board
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Part I
- Part II
- 25 Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects
- 26 The Belmont Report: ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research
- 27 ICH Good Clinical Practice Guideline
- 28 Governance arrangements for NHS research ethics committees
- 29 The research governance framework for health and social care
- 30 EU Clinical Directive 2001/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations, and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use
- 31 European Convention on human rights and biomedicine (ETS 164) and additional protocol on the prohibition of cloning human beings
- 32 Good research practice
- 33 Research: the role and responsibilities of doctors
- 34 Guidelines for company-sponsored safety assessment of marketed medicines (SAMM)
- 35 Guidelines for medical experiments in non-patient human volunteers
- 36 Facilities for non-patient volunteer studies
- 37 Multi-centre research in the NHS – the process of ethical review when there is no local researcher
- 38 Medical devices regulations and research ethics committees
- 39 NHS indemnity – arrangements for clinical negligence claims in the NHS
- 40 Clinical trial compensation guidelines
- 41 Research ethics: guidance for nurses involved in research or any investigative project involving human subjects
- 42 Ethical principles for conducting research with human participants
- 43 Statement of ethical practice
- 44 Human tissue and biological samples for use in research
- 45 Transitional guidelines to facilitate changes in procedures for handling ‘surplus’ and archival material from human biological samples
- 46 Code of practice on the use of fetuses and fetal material in research and treatment (extracts from the Polkinghorne Report)
- 47 Guidance on the supply of fetal tissue for research, diagnosis and therapy
- 48 Guidance on making proposals to conduct gene therapy research on human subjects (seventh annual report – section 1)
- 49 Report on the potential use of gene therapy in utero
- 50 Human fertilisation and embryology authority – code of practice (extracts)
- 51 Guidelines for researchers – patient information sheet and consent form
- 52 ABPI Guidance note – patient information and consents for clinical trials
- 53 The protection and use of patient information (HSG(96)18/LASSL(96)5)
- 54 The Caldicott Report on the review of patient-identifiable information – executive summary December 1997
- 55 Personal information in medical research
- 56 Use and disclosure of medical data – guidance on the Application of the Data Protection Act, 1998, May 2002
- 57 Guidelines for the ethical conduct of medical research involving children
- 58 Clinical investigation of medicinal products in the paediatric population
- 59 Guidelines for researchers and for ethics committees on psychiatric research involving human participants – executive summary
- 60 The ethical conduct of research on the mentally incapacitated
- 61 Volunteering for research into dementia Alzheimer's Society
- 62 Knowledge to care: research and development in hospice and specialist palliative care – executive summary
- 63 NUS guidelines for student participation in medical experiments and guidance for students considering participation in medical drug trials
- 64 Ethical considerations in HIV preventive vaccine research
- 65 2002 international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects
- 66 1991 international guidelines for ethical review of epidemiological studies
- 67 Operational guidelines for ethics committees that review biomedical research
- 68 Registration of an institutional review board (IRB) or independent ethics committee (IEC)
- 69 International guidelines on bioethics (informal listing of selected international codes, declarations, guidelines etc. on medical ethics/bioethics/health care ethics/human rights aspects of health)
- Index
Summary
Personal information in medical research
The MRC working group which prepared this guidance comprised:
Professor Andy Haines (Chair, Dept of Primary Care & Population Sciences, Royal Free & University College Medical School)
Dr Richard Ashcroft(University of Bristol / Imperial College School of Medicine)
Dr David Coggon(MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit)
Dr Angela Coulter (The King's Fund/Picker Institute Europe)
Professor Len Doyal (Queen Mary & Westfield College)
Dr Elaine Gadd (Dept of Health)
Professor Charles Gillis (Dept of Public Health, University of Glasgow)
Dr Naomi Pfeffer (Consumers for Ethics in Research/University of North London)
Professor Michael Wadsworth (MRC National Survey of Health & Development)
Mr Philip Walker (NHS Executive)
Mrs Madeleine Wang (Northern & Yorkshire Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee)
Professor Simon Wessely (Dept of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry)
Office staff
Dr Declan Mulkeen
Dr Imogen Evans
Dr Jenny Baverstock (2000)
Mr Stéphane Goldstein (1999)
Updates to this guidance are available on MRC's website:
www.mrc.ac.uk
© 2000 Medical Research Council. October 2000.
Copies available from MRC External Communications 020 7636 5422
Glossary
Personal information, as used in this guide, refers to all information about individuals, living or dead. This includes written and electronic records, opinions, images, recordings, and information obtained from samples. Although anonymised data is not, strictly speaking, personal information, its use is also covered in this guide.
Personal data, in the context of the 1998 Data Protection Act (Section 3.2, and Annex 3), comprise information about living people who can be identified from the data, or from combinations of the data and other information which the person in control of the data has, oris likely to have in future.
Information
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Manual for Research Ethics CommitteesCentre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London, pp. 367 - 390Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
Accessibility standard: Unknown
Why this information is here
This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.Accessibility Information
Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this chapter is currently unknown
and may be updated in the future.