Implications for nursing and healthcare research of the general data protection regulation and retrospective reviews of patients' data.

CONCLUSION: If GDPR results in stricter requirements to achieve patients' consent in research, the validity of some studies may be affected. Nurse researchers and organisations may need to consider innovative ways of engaging patients in research.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Research using patients' data has played an important role in shaping nursing and healthcare policy and practice. Imminent Europe-wide changes prompted by GDPR could affect how patients' data are used in research.
PMID: 31468836 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Nurse Researcher - March 17, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Crowhurst N, Bergin M, Wells J Tags: Nurse Res Source Type: research