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|Resource Type=Cases
|Title=A Case Study of Secondary Use of Qualitative Data
|Is About=A five-year research project, ''Knowledge Utilization and Policy Implementation'', funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, incorporates the secondary use of qualitative data sets from multiple separate research projects across Canada. The case study provides useful recommendations to deal with central questions regarding anonymization. It also considers the strengths and weaknesses of  anonymization policies<ref>Thomson, Denise, et al. "Central questions of anonymization: A case study of secondary use of qualitative data." ''Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research''. Vol. 6. No. 1. 2005.</ref>.
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|Important Because=Anonymization—the removal of identifying information from data—is one way of preparing data for secondary use. Close examination shows that the practice is full of methodological, ethical and theoretical tensions. Anonymization can hide important contextual information that is potentially valuable to the researcher<ref>Thomson, Denise, et al. "Central questions of anonymization: A case study of secondary use of qualitative data." ''Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research''. Vol. 6. No. 1. 2005.</ref>.
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|Important For=Researchers
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|Has Link=http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/511/1102
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|Has Timepoint=2005
|Has Location=Canada
|Has Virtue And Value=Respect; Honesty
|Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Privacy; Anonymity; Confidentiality
|Related To Research Area=Health sciences
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