Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule and Research Consent Documents

  1. David A. Gorelick, MD, PhD
  1. From the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland.

    TO THE EDITOR:

    Shalowitz and Wendler (1) provide some helpful suggestions for reducing the length and complexity of research consent documents that also comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule requirements. However, I believe that one of their recommendations is not as straightforward as they present.

    They suggest that research consent documents incorporate …

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