[The proposed law on safeguarding of data--a threat to medical-epidemiologic research in Switzerland?]. 1984

U Ackermann-Liebrich, and R Bruppacher, and F Gutzwiller, and C Minder, and H Noack, and F Paccaud, and G Schüler, and B Somaini, and R Steffen, and P Wüthrich

The draft of the new law on the confidentiality of personal data severely curtails medical and epidemiological research. This might be detrimental and dangerous to public health. The project therefore has to be amended.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011996 Records Works on authentic evidence, of something having legal importance. The concept includes certificates of birth, death, etc., as well as hospital, medical, and other institutional records. Records as Topic,Personal Identification Systems,Travel Documents,Documents, Travel,Identification Systems, Personal,Personal Identification System,Record,Records as Topics
D003219 Confidentiality The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure. Patient Data Privacy,Privacy of Patient Data,Privileged Communication,Confidential Information,Secrecy,Communication, Privileged,Communications, Privileged,Data Privacy, Patient,Information, Confidential,Privacy, Patient Data,Privileged Communications
D004813 Epidemiology Field concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease. Social Epidemiology,Epidemiologies, Social,Epidemiology, Social,Social Epidemiologies
D013557 Switzerland A country in Europe. It is bordered by Austria, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, and Germany. The capital is Bern.

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