These high quality data are standardized with a minimum set of fields including the taxon name, latitude/longitude position, and date/time for observations, begin/end dates and locations for effort data, and individual identification codes for satellite telemetry tag data [4].
LSDBs must be cautious in accepting unpublished data from any investigators or from accredited diagnostic laboratories, and consider issues that could limit the clinical accuracy of unpublished submissions, including standardization of clinical language, source of data, individual identification, and consent.
Interns can expect to gain experience in research design, ethogram development, individual identification, inter-observer reliability, sampling techniques, data collection, and data entry and analysis, among others.
A new focal animal survey applied to blue whale (Gendron, unpublished data) requires individual identification of the focal animal at sea.
Reported AEs go into the Danish Patient Safety Database (DPSD) under the NAPRC; however, the DPSD does not contain CRS-numbers and record linkage with other data sources; individual identification is therefore not possible.
Personal identification data of the individual patient will remain at the study sites and connection to the data base will be prevented.
Data resulting from individual identification of dogs spayed as part of an Animal Birth Control ABCC) programme in Jaipur, India, are used to derive such parameters for the roaming dog population of that city.
To ensure data protection, each participant will receive an individual identification number for the purposes of pseudonymisation.
An individual informed consent was not obtained because in this survey data were extracted from medical records without individual identification [ 11].
