The Conduct of Clinical Research Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Autor: | Stephen B. Trippel, Mathias P.G. Bostrom, David Clark, Katherine Sale, William C. McMaster, Mark C. Gebhardt, Gunnar Andersson |
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Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Biomedical Research symbols.namesake medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Ethical code Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Hippocratic Oath Informed Consent business.industry Patient Selection World War II Charter General Medicine medicine.disease Medical research United States Surgery Privacy Law Nuremberg Code symbols business Corporal punishment Ethics Committees Research |
Zdroj: | The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. 88:2765-2770 |
ISSN: | 0021-9355 |
DOI: | 10.2106/jbjs.f.00794 |
Popis: | This article is the report of a work group of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Council on Research, Quality Assessment, and Technology. The task assigned to the group by the Chair, Joshua Jacobs, MD, was to review, codify, and disseminate information for the Fellowship on the compliance requirements for conducting clinical research under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The ethical conduct of clinical practice has an established precedent extending to ancient times and the beginnings of the healing professions, encoded in the Code of Hammurabi and the Hippocratic oath. These guides were intended to regulate the conduct and ethics of the purveyors of medical treatment in the ancient world. They also prescribed boundaries of behavior and penalties for transgressions, including corporal punishment. Comparatively, medical research does not have such a history and was largely without published standards of conduct until the twentieth century. The Nazi physician trials in 1946 exposed atrocities committed under the guise of experimental human medical research, which resulted in the 1947 Nuremberg Code for human research1. Included in the ten precedents that it established were the important requirements that subject participation be informed and voluntary and that human research must be scientifically valid and conducted solely for the benefit of society as a whole. The Nuremberg Code was accepted by the fifty-one signatory nations of the Charter of the United Nations. In 1953, the Clinical Center of the United States National Institutes of Health produced the first federal policy to protect human research subjects. The years after World War II saw an increase in scientific technology applied to medical treatment protocols. The new policy was consistent with the Nuremberg Code and gave special emphasis to the protection of healthy adult research volunteers. This policy established the beginning of … |
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