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Tony Soteriou

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PubMed2005

Patient confidentiality, clinical data and NHS research--a researcher's guide.

More stringent research governance in the NHS has led to an increased focus on the importance of patient confidentiality. But relatively low levels of knowledge of the Data Protection Act and common law duty of confidentiality among some researchers and research managers cause difficulties in getting research projects off the ground. The authors outline the main issues surrounding research, data protection and patient confidentiality, and provide guidance for researchers, clinicians and managers on how to conduct research appropriately.

Computer Security↗
PubMed2004

Artefact or reality? Increases in persons notified to the Regional Drug Misuse Database in the South West of England, 1996-2001.

The incidence of new persons and repeat attenders presenting for treatment for problem drug misuse in the South West of England more than doubled from 1996-1997 to 2000-2001. During this time there was an increase in the number and severity of chronic cases, both in terms of the prevalence of heroin and crack-cocaine use and in the frequency of injecting and sharing injecting equipment. Growth in the availability of treatment, changes in notification practice and sub-regional variation make it difficult to be confident about real rates of increase, or age, gender and substance misuse changes, but the size of these changes mean they are unlikely to be purely artefactal.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

Research governance and students: what are NHS trusts looking for?

Student research in the National Health Service (NHS) must now be conducted within the framework of research governance and research ethics. In this paper, Tony Soteriou and Gill Hek highlight the considerations that undergraduate, post-registration and postgraduate students, as well as their supervisors and course lecturers need to make at the outset of planning student research in the NHS.

Decision Making, Organizational↗