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Studies commonly rely on Volunteer Integration forms with the purpose of pulling in data from volunteer records to study forms the . The most common are demographics, concomitant medications, and substance use.
If a privacy removal occurs, any existing study forms that previously pulled details from the volunteer record will remain as-is. However, use of these forms after a removal has occurred may not yield expected results.
Demographic integration forms will no longer pull in valid demographic data from the volunteer record (other than obfuscated values set for name, DOB, etc.), as DOB and other values are obfuscated.
Concomitant Medications and Substance Use forms may still attempt to reference historical data from the volunteer record on import. However, it is not guaranteed that imported values will be accurate, given that there is no area within privacy removed volunteer records to manage Substance Use, Medications, and Medical Conditions.
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Using eConsent features, users can review and approve inbound requests across studies that would come by way of Medidata. However without demographic data, automatic matches to existing volunteers/subjects will no longer occur. Additionally, users cannot generate or rely on unique 2d barcodes for automatic matching against volunteers that are privacy removed.
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Privacy removed volunteers prevent users the ability to review historical study participation data - data on study forms and lab results - via the volunteer record. These may be important functions to certain users to access to review for certain various workflows, as access to this data from the volunteer record allows appropriate in the Volunteer component, and not the study specific Study components. It also prevents the ability to export that data as well.