While conducting a research study, the researcher creates a table of new health information data. Which of the following should the researcher do with this new data?
1. Gain permission from the patients to use the data, and discuss who will receive it.
2. Ask the patients' health care providers if the information is valid.
3. Validate the data with laboratory results in the patients' medical records.
4. Ask the patients' nurses if the data appears to be correct and then document it was validated.
Gain permission from the patients to use the data, and discuss who will receive it.
Rationale: The HIPAA privacy regulation impacts nursing research in three ways: data access, data creation, and data disclosure. Within data creation, any protected health information obtained is covered by HIPAA and the research is bound by HIPAA regulations. The researcher needs to obtain permission from the patient to use the data, including who is going to receive it. The researcher should not discuss the data with the patients' health care providers or nurses. The researcher should also not review the patients' medical records without with patients' permission to do so.
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