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Ethical and legal considerations in a Swiss study on the quality of pharmacotherapy in the city of Basel
Author(s) -
Bruppacher Rudolf,
Kaeser Yolanda
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.023
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1099-1557
pISSN - 1053-8569
DOI - 10.1002/pds.648
Subject(s) - medicine , pharmacy , anonymity , quality assurance , family medicine , law , political science , external quality assessment , pathology
We describe a study on the quality of pharmacotherapy that included downloading electronic records in pharmacies and obtaining other information from the Public Sickness Fund in Basel, Switzerland. Legal and ethical considerations were discussed with and approved by the Internal Review Board of the university clinics through which the project was organized. Technical procedures were used to assure anonymity of the records during data collection and for the analysis. Completion of the records through links with personal data could be performed using a legally required process for quality assurance of the Public Sickness Fund. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.