The Swedish personal identity number: possibilities and pitfalls in healthcare and medical research

Swedish health care and national health registers are dependent on the presence of a unique identifier. This paper describes the Swedish personal identity number (PIN) and explores ethical issues of its use in medical research. A ten-digit-PIN is maintained by the National Tax Board for all individu...

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Main Authors: Ludvigsson, Jonas F., Otterblad-Olausson, Petra, Pettersson, Birgitta U., Ekbom, Anders
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer Netherlands 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773709/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19504049
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-009-9350-y
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