Despite state and local laws requiring medical providers to report notifiable infectious
diseases to public health authorities, reporting is believed to be incomplete. Through means …

Offering compelling practical and legal reasons why de-identification should be one of the
main approaches to protecting patients' privacy, the Guide to the De-Identification of …

The publication of the first counseling articles addressing confidentiality limits of clients who
have HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and continue to be sexually active with an …

Background Providers have been reluctant to disclose patient data for public-health
purposes. Even if patient privacy is ensured, the desire to protect provider confidentiality has …

Background Privacy concerns by providers have been a barrier to disclosing patient
information for public health purposes. This is the case even for mandated notifiable disease …

Este estudo comparou as informações contidas nos bancos de dados do Sistema de
Informações Hospitalares (SIH-SUS) e do Sistema de Informações de Agravos de …

SETTING: Population-based study in Taiwan. OBJECTIVE: To determine the tuberculosis
(TB) mortality trends in Taiwan by site and age. DESIGN: Mortality data for the years 1972 to …

Objective: To assess the impact of the 1993 change in the AIDS case definition on the
completeness and timeframe of AIDS case reporting in San Francisco. Design …

The survival experience and causes of death of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
(AIDS) patients were studied using a cohort of 3,699 AIDS patients in New York State …

De-identification refers to a set of methods that can be applied to data to ensure that the
probability of assigning a correct identity to a record in the data is very low.[...] An agent is …