Alice Panchaud, PharmD, PhD, clinical pharmacist and pharmacoepidemiologist, CHUV, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, explains how researchers can anonymously enter patient data to the international Zika virus registry, which collects data on women exposed to the mosquito-borne virus during pregnancy.
Alice Panchaud, PharmD, PhD, clinical pharmacist and pharmacoepidemiologist, CHUV, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, explains how researchers can anonymously enter patient data to the
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We are collecting only anonymous data, so only anonymous information. Furthermore, we don’t want to have information that is going to lead to the patient, like where they live, city names. We don’t want that. We [also] don’t want date of birth and things like that, even for the baby. So it’s really protected for that.”
