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Patients' rights in the Netherlands
EDITOR, - The board of the Netherlands Epidemiological Society, which has 850 members, was surprised to read Tony Sheldon's restrictive interpretation of a proposed Dutch law concerning patients' rights, which has not yet passed the First Chamber in the Netherlands.1 Sheldon reports that the proposed law formed the basis of a document on patients' rights endorsed by 36 European nations after consultation by the World Health Organisation.
The Netherlands Epidemiological Society has collaborated closely with health lawyers, government officials, and politicians to ensure that the new law will permit non-experimental clinical and epidemiological research based on data on patients. We specifically emphasised the rights of future patients, whose treatments should be influenced by results of analyses of data on patients collected systematically in the past. Such research implies adequate access to the data. This is especially true for studies of side effects of treatments and preventive interventions. Sheldon's statement that
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