An informed consent form was not presented, as the study participants, who were all government health workers, participated in the study upon the request of the Ministry of Health.
This article was amended on 8 November 2012 to anonymise the case study at the request of its subject.
Such research is rare, said Dr. Louis Lasagna, an expert on drug development at Tufts University who helped oversee the Yale study at the request of Dr. Soller's group.
"People are hungry for information," said David C. Trimble, director of natural resources and environment at the Government Accountability Office, which produced the study at the request of two lawmakers, Representatives Edward Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Brad Miller, Democrat of North Carolina.
Stanford's Cristobal Young, an assistant professor of sociology, and Princeton's Charles Varner, a doctoral candidate in sociology, conducted the study at the request of the California Board of Equalization, allowing them unique access to California Franchise Tax Board income data.
The budget office, the research arm of Congress, produced the study at the request of Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a Texas Democrat and chairman of the Finance Committee, to give Congress guidance on the bill to allow a referendum in 1991 on Puerto Rico's political future.
"I was surprised to find that pretty much all of the same technologies used to track adults are being used on kids' Web sites," said Richard M. Smith, an Internet security expert in Boston who conducted the study at the request of the Center for Digital Democracy, an advocacy group.
(As a side note, at the end of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office performed a study at the request of Congress and recommended that pre-72 sound recordings be placed under federal jurisdiction).
Two nearby health center catchment areas were included in the MC study at the request of local authorities: Sala Krau in Pailin and Sotnikum in Siem Riep.
It became necessary to unblind the allocation to 2 participants during the course of the study at the request of the MHRA after receipt of notification of Adverse Events.
