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Donald J Willison
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Open AccessArtificial intelligence for good health: a sco** review of the ethics literature
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been described as the “fourth industrial revolution” with transformative and global implications, including in healthcare, public health, and global health. AI approaches hold ...
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Open AccessIf you build it, they will come: unintended future uses of organised health data collections
Health research increasingly relies on organized collections of health data and biological samples. There are many types of sample and data collections that are used for health research, though these are colle...
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Open AccessA risk screening tool for ethical appraisal of evidence-generating initiatives
The boundaries between health-related research and practice have become blurred as initiatives traditionally considered to be practice (e.g., quality improvement, program evaluation) increasingly use the same ...
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Open AccessWhat makes public health studies ethical? Dissolving the boundary between research and practice
The generation of evidence is integral to the work of public health and health service providers. Traditionally, ethics has been addressed differently in research projects, compared with other forms of evidenc...
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Open AccessPerceptions of immunization information systems for collecting pandemic H1N1 immunization data within Canada's public health community: A qualitative study
Immunization information systems (IISs) are electronic registries used to monitor individual vaccination status and assess vaccine coverage. IISs are currently not widely used across Canada, where health juris...
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Open AccessConsent for use of personal information for health research: Do people with potentially stigmatizing health conditions and the general public differ in their opinions?
Stigma refers to a distinguishing personal trait that is perceived as or actually is physically, socially, or psychologically disadvantageous. Little is known about the opinion of those who have more or less s...
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Open AccessAlternatives to project-specific consent for access to personal information for health research: Insights from a public dialogue
The role of consent for research use of health information is contentious. Most discussion has focused on when project-specific consent may be waived but, recently, a broader range of consent options has been ...
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Open AccessWho's minding the shop? The role of Canadian research ethics boards in the creation and uses of registries and biobanks
The amount of research utilizing health information has increased dramatically over the last ten years. Many institutions have extensive biobank holdings collected over a number of years for clinical and teach...
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Open AccessVariation in recruitment across sites in a consent-based clinical data registry: lessons from the Canadian Stroke Network
In earlier work, we found important selection biases when we tried to obtain consent for participation in a national stroke registry. Recognizing that not all registries will be exempt from requiring consent f...
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Cost Effectiveness of Multi-Therapy Treatment Strategies in the Prevention of Vertebral Fractures in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the cost effectiveness of multitherapy treatment strategies in the prevention of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
