Patient ‘consent withdrawn’ or patient ‘opt-out’ for sharing data can be flagged within CAT. This is set from the patient list and should be used where a patient has requested their data not be used for research purposes. It removes a patient’s data completely from any deidentified data files that CAT creates. There are 2 such types of deidentified file.
1. CAT Deidentified Dataset
CAT has a deidentify tool that creates a copy of the CAT XML files with patient identifying details removed (name, dob, address, medicare number etc). This is the file that is uploaded to PAT CAT for data aggregation.
2. Research project CSV files
Some projects within CAT require deidentified patient level data to be submitted to a project portal for analysis. Such projects are typically research projects that comprise of a control and intervention group of practices.
Projects receiving data will:
In these projects deidentified patient data is submitted to the project in a .csv file using custom CAT Data Submission functionality.
The patient ‘consent withdrawn’ functionality removes the patient level data from any deidentified data sent outside the practice.
You only need to set this once for a patient
1. From the reidentify report choose the Add/Withdraw Patient Consent for Sharing Data at the bottom
2. Click Go
The patient selection window will pop up
3. Tick patients to exclude
4. Click OK to save the selection
To ensure the selected patient data is not saved to the 1) Deidentified file or 2) CSV file that will be sent, you will need to either:
Do a new collect, or
1) Delete the deidentified file and rerun the deidentify tool
2) Delete the .csv files created and reload (or recalculate) the current data extract
1. From the reidentify report choose the Add/Withdraw Patient Consent for Sharing Data at the bottom 2. Click Go
The patient selection window will pop up
3. Tick patients to exclude 4. Click OK to save the selection
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To ensure the selected patient data is not saved to the 1) Deidentified file or 2) CSV file that will be sent, you will need to either: · Do a new collect, or · 1) Delete the deidentified file and rerun the deidentify tool 2) Delete the .csv files created and reload (or recalculate) the current data extract |