TY - JOUR AU - Macleod, Una AU - Watt, Graham CM PY - 2008 DA - 2008/04/03 TI - The impact of consent on observational research: a comparison of outcomes from consenters and non consenters to an observational study JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 15 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - Public health benefits from research often rely on the use of data from personal medical records. When neither patient consent nor anonymisation is possible, the case for accessing such records for research purposes depends on an assessment of the probabilities of public benefit and individual harm. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-8-15 DO - 10.1186/1471-2288-8-15 ID - Macleod2008 ER -