I understand that I cannot record identifiers along with the medical information I abstract from the medical records. Exactly what is meant by identifiers?
Researchers cannot record the patient’s name, address, phone number, e-mail address, medical record number, social security number, or any other piece of information that will readily identify the person. Note that this list of identifiers is less restrictive than the HIPAA list of 18 identifiers. For example, dates and health care providers names may be recorded – so long as they are absolutely required for this research project. Back to Top 3. I have received IRB approval to conduct my retrospective medical record review and have already record information from 10 medical records (without identifiers), but now realize that there are several additional medical variables that I would like to collect from all the records. How do I go back and get this information from the records I have already reviewed? Because you have recorded medical information without identifiers, there is no easy way for you to go back to those initial records and abstract and record this additional information.
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