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. 2019 May 21;21(5):e12412. doi: 10.2196/12412

Table 2.

Examples of joint use of health data based on reuse of data routinely collected during patient follow-up with alternative patient identification, complementary data collection, alternative aggregations, and uses of data.

Examples Patient identification Data collection Data aggregation Data use
Patient Group Patient Group Patient Group Patient Group
Ad hoc Sysa Ad hoc Sys Ad hoc Sys Ad hoc Sys Ad hoc Sys Ad hoc Sys Ad hoc Sys Ad hoc Sys
Clinical practice
b

Basisc Basis







Quality surveillance



Reused Compe






Clinical research



Reuse Comp






Individual prognosis



Reuse Reuse





aSys: Systematic or repeated data process.

bAll check marks indicate unchanged activity-specific processes (see Table 1).

cBasis: The routine collected follow-up data are the base for alternative uses.

dReuse: Direct reuse of data collected in the cell above.

eComp: Complementary data collection.