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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet A. 2011 Nov 7;155(12):2982–2990. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.34304

TABLE III.

Respondents' Perceptions about Protection of Information

Nashville Community Health Survey N(%) Vanderbilt Faculty and Staff Survey N (%)
How confident are you that research hospitals such as Vanderbilt Medical Center do a good job of protecting patients 'medical information? How confident are you that Vanderbilt Medical Center adequately protects patients' medical information?
Responses: 639 Responses 4,026
Somewhat or Very Confident: 603 (94.4) Somewhat or Very Confident 3,713 (92.2)
Only a Little or Not at All Confident: 36 (5.6) Not very or not at all confident 217 (5.4)
Don't Know 96 (2.4)
How confident are you that your identity is protected when genetic information is used for research?
Responses: 614
Somewhat or Very Confident: 546 (88.8)
Only a Little or Not at All Confident: 69 (11.2)