Confidentiality – non-Industry Sponsored/non-Health Canada Registered Study run solely at MSH

If you agree to join this study, the study doctor and his/her study team will look at your personal health information and collect only the information they need for the study. Personal health information is any information that could be used to identify you and includes your:

• name,

• address,

• date of birth,

• new or existing medical records, that includes types, dates and results of medical tests or procedures.
  

The information that is collected for the study will be kept in a locked and secure area by the study doctor for 7 years. Only the study team or the people or groups listed below will be allowed to look at your records. Your participation in this study also may be recorded in your medical record at this hospital.

Representatives of the Mount Sinai Hospital Research Ethics Board may look at the study records and at your personal health information to check that the information collected for the study is correct and to make sure the study followed proper laws and guidelines.

All information collected during this study, including your personal health information, will be kept confidential and will not be shared with anyone outside the study unless required by law. You will not be named in any reports, publications, or presentations that may come from this study.

If you decide to leave the study, the information about you that was collected before you left the study will still be used. No new information will be collected without your permission.