Icelandic gene database will uphold patients' rights
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The Icelandic Healthcare Database and informed consent.
Modern information technology is rapidly changing how new knowledge is discovered in most fields of science, including medicine. This technology offers interesting possibilities in the development of methods to understand diseases better, but it also presents new ethical challenges. The new technology offers the possibility of mining large data sets for knowledge, without a priori hypotheses, b...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7186.806