• Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2021

    Is waiver of consent for the use of health information for research acceptable to emergency department patients?

    • Chase Schultz-Swarthfigure and Anne-Maree Kelly.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
    • Emerg Med Australas. 2021 Apr 1; 33 (2): 379-384.

    AbstractSome emergency medicine research, especially retrospective studies using medical records review, rely on waiver of consent for use of personal health information (PHI) contained in clinical records. This is a secondary use of PHI and waiver of consent raises ethical, legal and practical issues. Granting of a waiver of consent is often (but not always) approved by a human research ethics committee and requires separate but inter-related consideration of the legal and ethical issues. In part, this involves a balancing of the public interest versus the risk to privacy and an evaluation of whether subjects would, mostly likely, have agreed to the use of their PHI had they been asked. To date, there are no robust data about whether use of PHI without consent for research would be acceptable to people who attend Australasian EDs for care.© 2021 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.

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