Another tool provides demographic insights of Free Basics users, allowing developers to see anonymized, aggregated results by age and gender for each country so that they can tailor services to their users.
As for direct identification using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry directly on blood culture bottles samples were anonymized and results obtained by using the protocol presented herein not transmitted to clinicians in charge of patients, we did not ask for informed consent of patients.
Due to the potentially sensitive nature of the live data, it has been anonymized in our results as follows: 1.
The analyses of the biobank are anonymized, and the results are not provided to the families.
If these biospecimen are anonymized, individual research results from genomic research, which should be offered to patients in a clinically relevant timeframe, cannot be associated back to the individual.
As determined by the ethics committee (Ethikkommission bei der Deutschen Ärztekammer Niedersachsen), no ethical approval was required for this purely observational study, because residual patient samples were used that were completely anonymized and study results had no influence on the patients' follow-up strategy.
The problem here is that it is very hard to anonymize data in such a way that all links with an individual are removed and the resulting anonymized data is still useful for research purposes.
Still, he says, "For people who want to try, we provide support," including via the feedback of Cor's other customers, who will be asked to answer occasional, anonymized survey questions about their results and the ways they are improving on them.
Anonymized survey results for the first four workshops are available (Supplementary 1 4).
The results were anonymized before the face-to-face group discussion.
