Ethical aspects of sudden cardiac arrest research using observational data: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) accounts for half of all cardiac deaths in Europe. In recent years, large-scale SCA registries have been set up to enable observational studies into risk factors and the effect of treatment approaches. The increasing scale and variety of data sources, coupled with the implementation of a new European data protection legal framework, causes researchers to struggle with how to handle these 'big data'. Data protection in the SCA setting is especially complex since patients become at least temporarily incapacitated, and are thus unable to provide prospective informed consent, and because the majority of patients do not survive. A narrative review employing a systematic literature search was conducted to thematically analyse ethical aspects of non-interventional emer

SUBMITTER: Bak MAR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6136218 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature