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Rodríguez-Villodres Á, Martín-Gandul C, Peñalva G, Guisado-Gil AB, Crespo-Rivas JC, Pachón-Ibáñez ME, Lepe JA, Cisneros JM. Prevalence and Risk Factors for Multidrug-Resistant Organisms Colonization in Long-Term Care Facilities Around the World: A Review. Antibiotics (Basel) 2021; 10:antibiotics10060680. [PMID: 34200238 PMCID: PMC8228357 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics10060680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Elderly people confined to chronic care facilities face an increased risk of acquiring infections by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). This review presents the current knowledge of the prevalence and risk factors for colonization by MDROs in long-term care facilities (LTCF), thereby providing a useful reference to establish objectives for implementing successful antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs). We searched in PubMed and Scopus for studies examining the prevalence of MDROs and/or risk factors for the acquisition of MDROs in LTCF. One hundred and thirty-four studies published from 1987 to 2020 were included. The prevalence of MDROs in LTCF varies between the different continents, where Asia reported the highest prevalence of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL) Enterobacterales (71.6%), carbapenem resistant (CR) Enterobacterales (6.9%) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (25.6%) and North America the highest prevalence to MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa (5.4%), MDR Acinetobacter baumannii (15.0%), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. (VRE) (4.0%), and Clostridioides difficile (26.1%). Furthermore, MDRO prevalence has experienced changes over time, with increases in MDR P. aeruginosa and extended spectrum ß-lactamase producing Enterobacterales observed starting in 2015 and decreases of CR Enterobacterales, MDR A. baumannii, VRE, MRSA and C. difficile. Several risk factors have been found, such as male sex, chronic wounds, the use of medical devices, and previous antibiotic use. The last of these aspects represents one of the most important modifiable factors for reducing colonization with MDROs through implementing ASPs in LTCF.
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- Ángel Rodríguez-Villodres
- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University of Seville/CSIC/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain; (Á.R.-V.); (C.M.-G.); (G.P.); (A.B.G.-G.); (J.C.C.-R.); (M.E.P.-I.); (J.A.L.)
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University of Seville/CSIC/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain; (Á.R.-V.); (C.M.-G.); (G.P.); (A.B.G.-G.); (J.C.C.-R.); (M.E.P.-I.); (J.A.L.)
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University of Seville/CSIC/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain; (Á.R.-V.); (C.M.-G.); (G.P.); (A.B.G.-G.); (J.C.C.-R.); (M.E.P.-I.); (J.A.L.)
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University of Seville/CSIC/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain; (Á.R.-V.); (C.M.-G.); (G.P.); (A.B.G.-G.); (J.C.C.-R.); (M.E.P.-I.); (J.A.L.)
- Department of Pharmacy, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University of Seville/CSIC/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain; (Á.R.-V.); (C.M.-G.); (G.P.); (A.B.G.-G.); (J.C.C.-R.); (M.E.P.-I.); (J.A.L.)
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University of Seville/CSIC/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain; (Á.R.-V.); (C.M.-G.); (G.P.); (A.B.G.-G.); (J.C.C.-R.); (M.E.P.-I.); (J.A.L.)
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University of Seville/CSIC/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain; (Á.R.-V.); (C.M.-G.); (G.P.); (A.B.G.-G.); (J.C.C.-R.); (M.E.P.-I.); (J.A.L.)
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University of Seville/CSIC/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, 41013 Seville, Spain; (Á.R.-V.); (C.M.-G.); (G.P.); (A.B.G.-G.); (J.C.C.-R.); (M.E.P.-I.); (J.A.L.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +34-697-958-658
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Mitevska E, Wong B, Surewaard BGJ, Jenne CN. The Prevalence, Risk, and Management of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in Diverse Populations across Canada: A Systematic Review. Pathogens 2021; 10:pathogens10040393. [PMID: 33805913 PMCID: PMC8064373 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10040393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) first emerged after methicillin was introduced to combat penicillin resistance, and its prevalence in Canada has increased since the first MRSA outbreak in the early 1980s. We reviewed the existing literature on MRSA prevalence in Canada over time and in diverse populations across the country. MRSA prevalence increased steadily in the 1990s and 2000s and remains a public health concern in Canada, especially among vulnerable populations, such as rural, remote, and Indigenous communities. Antibiotic resistance patterns and risk factors for MRSA infection were also reported. All studies reported high susceptibility (>85%) to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, with no significant resistance reported for vancomycin, linezolid, or rifampin. While MRSA continues to have susceptibility to several antibiotics, the high and sometimes variable resistance rates to other drugs underscores the importance of antimicrobial stewardship. Risk factors for high MRSA infection rates related to infection control measures, low socioeconomic status, and personal demographic characteristics were also reported. Additional surveillance, infection control measures, enhanced anti-microbial stewardship, and community education programs are necessary to decrease MRSA prevalence and minimize the public health risk posed by this pathogen.
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- Elena Mitevska
- Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N1N4, Canada; (E.M.); (B.W.)
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- Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N1N4, Canada; (E.M.); (B.W.)
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- Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N1N4, Canada;
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- Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N1N4, Canada; (E.M.); (B.W.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-403-220-3471
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Yigzaw KY, Budrionis A, Marco-Ruiz L, Henriksen TD, Halvorsen PA, Bellika JG. Privacy-preserving architecture for providing feedback to clinicians on their clinical performance. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2020; 20:116. [PMID: 32571306 PMCID: PMC7310252 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-020-01147-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Learning from routine healthcare data is important for the improvement of the quality of care. Providing feedback on clinicians’ performance in comparison to their peers has been shown to be more efficient for quality improvements. However, the current methods for providing feedback do not fully address the privacy concerns of stakeholders. Methods The paper proposes a distributed architecture for providing feedback to clinicians on their clinical performances while protecting their privacy. The indicators for the clinical performance of a clinician are computed within a healthcare institution based on pseudonymized data extracted from the electronic health record (EHR) system. Group-level indicators of clinicians across healthcare institutions are computed using privacy-preserving distributed data-mining techniques. A clinician receives feedback reports that compare his or her personal indicators with the aggregated indicators of the individual’s peers. Indicators aggregated across different geographical levels are the basis for monitoring changes in the quality of care. The architecture feasibility was practically evaluated in three general practitioner (GP) offices in Norway that consist of about 20,245 patients. The architecture was applied for providing feedback reports to 21 GPs on their antibiotic prescriptions for selected respiratory tract infections (RTIs). Each GP received one feedback report that covered antibiotic prescriptions between 2015 and 2018, stratified yearly. We assessed the privacy protection and computation time of the architecture. Results Our evaluation indicates that the proposed architecture is feasible for practical use and protects the privacy of the patients, clinicians, and healthcare institutions. The architecture also maintains the physical access control of healthcare institutions over the patient data. We sent a single feedback report to each of the 21 GPs. A total of 14,396 cases were diagnosed with the selected RTIs during the study period across the institutions. Of these cases, 2924 (20.3%) were treated with antibiotics, where 40.8% (1194) of the antibiotic prescriptions were narrow-spectrum antibiotics. Conclusions It is feasible to provide feedback to clinicians on their clinical performance in comparison to peers across healthcare institutions while protecting privacy. The architecture also enables monitoring changes in the quality of care following interventions.
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- Kassaye Yitbarek Yigzaw
- Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, University Hospital of North Norway, 9019, Tromsø, Norway.
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- Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, University Hospital of North Norway, 9019, Tromsø, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, University Hospital of North Norway, 9019, Tromsø, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, University Hospital of North Norway, 9019, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, University Hospital of North Norway, 9019, Tromsø, Norway.,Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway
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Latour K, Huang TD, Jans B, Berhin C, Bogaerts P, Noel A, Nonhoff C, Dodémont M, Denis O, Ieven M, Loens K, Schoevaerdts D, Catry B, Glupczynski Y. Prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms in nursing homes in Belgium in 2015. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214327. [PMID: 30921364 PMCID: PMC6438666 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Objectives Following two studies conducted in 2005 and 2011, a third prevalence survey of multidrug-resistant microorganisms (MDRO) was organised in Belgian nursing homes (NHs) using a similar methodology. The aim was to measure the prevalence of carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBLE) and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in NH residents. Risk factors for MDRO carriage were also explored. Methods Up to 51 randomly selected residents per NH were screened for MDRO carriage by trained local nurses between June and October 2015. Rectal swabs were cultured for ESBLE, CPE and VRE, while pooled samples of nose, throat and perineum and chronic wound swabs were obtained for culture of MRSA. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, molecular detection of resistance genes and strain genotyping were performed. Significant risk factors for MDRO colonization MDRO was determined by univariate and multivariable analysis. Results Overall, 1447 residents from 29 NHs were enrolled. The mean weighted prevalence of ESBLE and MRSA colonization was 11.3% and 9.0%, respectively. Co-colonization occurred in 1.8% of the residents. VRE and CPE carriage were identified in only one resident each. Impaired mobility and recent treatment with fluoroquinolones or with combinations of sulphonamides and trimethoprim were identified as risk factors for ESBLE carriage, while for MRSA these were previous MRSA carriage/infection, a stay in several different hospital wards during the past year, and a recent treatment with nitrofuran derivatives. Current antacid use was a predictor for both ESBL and MRSA carriage. Conclusions In line with the evolution of MRSA and ESBL colonization/infection in hospitals, a decline in MRSA carriage and an increase in ESBLE prevalence was seen in Belgian NHs between 2005 and 2015. These results show that a systemic approach, including surveillance and enhancement of infection control and antimicrobial stewardship programs is needed in both acute and chronic care facilities.
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- Katrien Latour
- Operational Directorate Epidemiology & Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacilli, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium
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- Operational Directorate Epidemiology & Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacilli, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacilli, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacilli, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and staphylococci, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and staphylococci, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- Ecole de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for vancomycin-resistant enterococci, Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for vancomycin-resistant enterococci, Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium
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- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain, Mont-Godinne, Belgium
- Institute of Health and Society, Ecole de Santé Publique, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Operational Directorate Epidemiology & Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium
- Ecole de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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- National Reference Centre for antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacilli, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium
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Dankar FK, Gergely M, Dankar SK. Informed Consent in Biomedical Research. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2019; 17:463-474. [PMID: 31007872 PMCID: PMC6458444 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2019.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 03/19/2019] [Accepted: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Informed consent is the result of tumultuous events in both the clinical and research arenas over the last 100 years. Throughout this time, the notion of informed consent has shifted tremendously, both due to advances in medicine, as well as the type of data being gathered. As such, informed consent has misaligned with the goals of medical research. It is becoming more and more vital to address this chasm, and begin building new frameworks to link this disconnect. Thus, we address three goals in this paper. First, we discuss the history of informed consent and unify the varying definitions of the term. Second, we evaluate the current research on the topic, classify them into themes, and attend to the problems therein. Lastly, we employ these themes of informed consent research mentioned previously to provide guidance and insight for future research in the arena.
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- Fida K. Dankar
- College of IT, UAEU, Al Ain, P.O.Box 15551, United Arab Emirates
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- College of IT, UAEU, Al Ain, P.O.Box 15551, United Arab Emirates
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Velsko S, Bates T. A Conceptual Architecture for National Biosurveillance: Moving Beyond Situational Awareness to Enable Digital Detection of Emerging Threats. Health Secur 2017; 14:189-201. [PMID: 27314659 DOI: 10.1089/hs.2015.0063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Despite numerous calls for improvement, the US biosurveillance enterprise remains a patchwork of uncoordinated systems that fail to take advantage of the rapid progress in information processing, communication, and analytics made in the past decade. By synthesizing components from the extensive biosurveillance literature, we propose a conceptual framework for a national biosurveillance architecture and provide suggestions for implementation. The framework differs from the current federal biosurveillance development pathway in that it is not focused on systems useful for "situational awareness" but is instead focused on the long-term goal of having true warning capabilities. Therefore, a guiding design objective is the ability to digitally detect emerging threats that span jurisdictional boundaries, because attempting to solve the most challenging biosurveillance problem first provides the strongest foundation to meet simpler surveillance objectives. Core components of the vision are: (1) a whole-of-government approach to support currently disparate federal surveillance efforts that have a common data need, including those for food safety, vaccine and medical product safety, and infectious disease surveillance; (2) an information architecture that enables secure national access to electronic health records, yet does not require that data be sent to a centralized location for surveillance analysis; (3) an inference architecture that leverages advances in "big data" analytics and learning inference engines-a significant departure from the statistical process control paradigm that underpins nearly all current syndromic surveillance systems; and (4) an organizational architecture with a governance model aimed at establishing national biosurveillance as a critical part of the US national infrastructure. Although it will take many years to implement, and a national campaign of education and debate to acquire public buy-in for such a comprehensive system, the potential benefits warrant increased consideration by the US government.
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Arbuckle L, Moher E, Bartlett SJ, Ahmed S, El Emam K. Montreal Accord on Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) use series - Paper 9: anonymization and ethics considerations for capturing and sharing patient reported outcomes. J Clin Epidemiol 2017; 89:168-172. [PMID: 28433677 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2015] [Revised: 03/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are collected with consent for care; however, using the data for any other purpose requires consent for that additional purpose, or the anonymization of the data. Collecting explicit consent to use this data for secondary purposes, before the patient completes a PRO, can also bias the responses. OBJECTIVE We consider the ethical and security issues related to the collection of data at the point of care or in the population and the aggregation and integration of PRO data with administrative databases to facilitate decision making and comparative effectiveness research. DISCUSSION In this article, we describe risk-based anonymization, taking the context of the data release into account, so that we may consider the degree by which the release is considered anonymized. We also consider the ethical use of anonymized data, the anonymization of free-form text, and the secure linking data sets without sharing any personal information. Many good standards and best practices exist for the sharing of health data and could be used as a baseline in the development of a national PRO initiative.
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- Luk Arbuckle
- Electronic Health Information Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L1
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- Electronic Health Information Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L1
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University/McGill University Health Center, 687 Pine Ave W R4.29, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A1; Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 5200 Eastern Avenue #4100, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, 3654 Prom Sir-William-Osler, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y5; Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Canada K1H 8L1
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- Electronic Health Information Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8L1; Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Canada K1H 8L1.
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